End-of-Life Care in Lung Cancer Patients in Ontario: Aggressiveness of Care in the Population and a Description of Hospital Admissions

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 267-274

  Barbera, Lisa ^a,c   Paszat, Lawrence ^b,c   Qiu, Feng ^c  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences   (Canada)

Author keywords

end of life care; in hospital death; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PAIN; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGISTER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; CRITICAL CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; REGISTRIES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 39549103861     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2007.04.019     Document Type: Article

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