The end-of-life hospital setting in patients with glioblastoma

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-30

  Oberndorfer, Stefan ^a,b   Lindeck Pozza, Elisabeth ^a   Lahrmann, Heinz ^a   Struhal, Walter ^a   Hitzenberger, Peter ^a   Grisold, Wolfgang ^a  

^a LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b KFJ Hospital   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FEVER; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; MALE; PAIN; PNEUMONIA; SEIZURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TERMINAL CARE;

AGED; AUSTRIA; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 38149133326     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2007.0137     Document Type: Article

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