Attitude of health-care providers toward childhood leukemia patients with different socio-economic status

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1001-1005

  Mostert, Saskia ^a   Sitaresmi, Mei N ^b   Gundy, Chad M ^c   Sutaryo, ^b   Veerman, Anjo J P ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia; compliance; Developing country; Health care providers; Socio economic status

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FAMILY; FINANCE; HUMAN; INDONESIA; MOTIVATION; NURSE; PARENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIST; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDONESIA; NURSES; POVERTY; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 41849086350     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.21324     Document Type: Article

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