Overcoming a stigma: The lung cancer patient in the intensive care unit

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-5

  Schonfeld N ^a   Timsit, J F ^b,c,d  

^a HELIOS KLINIKUM EMIL VON BEHRING   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT ALBERT BONNIOT   (France)

^c GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d HÔPITAL MICHALLON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSISTED VENTILATION; CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIGMA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; TIME;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PATIENT ADMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 45849103896     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00126307     Document Type: Editorial

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