Terminal delirium: Families' experience

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 587-594

  Namba, Miki ^a   Morita, Tatsuya ^a,d   Imura, Chizuru ^a,b   Kiyohara, Emi ^a   Ishikawa, Sayuri ^a   Hirai, Kei ^c  

^a SEIREI MIKATAHARA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Japanese Nursing Association   (Japan)

^c Graduate School of Osaka Institutes of Technology   (Japan)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Delirium; End of life care; Family; Neoplasm; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CAREGIVER SUPPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DELIRIUM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DYING; FAMILY ATTITUDE; FAMILY COPING; FEMALE; GUILT; HELPLESSNESS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TERMINAL DISEASE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION; DELIRIUM; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 36249024921     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216307081129     Document Type: Article

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