Differing management of people with advanced cancer and delirium by four sub-specialties

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 633-640

  Agar, Meera ^a,b,c,d   Currow, D C ^d   Plummer, J ^e   Chye, R ^b   Draper, B ^c,f  

^a Braeside Hospital   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^f PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advanced cancer; Delirium; Non pharmacological management; Pharmacological management; Reversible delirium; Terminal delirium

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; HORMONE; INFUSION FLUID; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OXYGEN;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DELIRIUM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MONOTHERAPY; ONCOLOGY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; URINE CULTURE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DELIRIUM; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PALLIATIVE CARE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 49149086306     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216308088691     Document Type: Article

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