Challenges to end of life care in the acute hospital setting

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 611-615

  Willard, Carole ^a   Luker, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; End of life; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CARE NURSE PRACTITIONER; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; UNITED KINGDOM; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; FAMILY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FAMILY; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 39049179387     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216306071064     Document Type: Article

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