When death appears best for the child with severe malignancy: A nationwide parental follow-up

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 567-577

  Hunt, Hayley ^a,e   Valdimarsdottir, Unnur ^a   Mucci, Lorelei ^a,b   Kreicbergs, Ulrika ^a,c   Steineck, Gunnar ^a,d  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

End of life; Malignancy; Morbidity; Palliative; Parents; Pediatric

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PARENTAL STRESS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SWEDEN; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FATHER; MENTAL STRESS; MOTHER; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TIME;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHILD; COMMUNICATION; FATHERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHERS; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWEDEN; TERMINALLY ILL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 39049177691     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216306069671     Document Type: Article

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