Medical staff attitudes: Views and positions regarding blood transfusion to terminally ill cancer patients

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 542-546

  Leibovitz, Arthur ^a,b   Baumoehl, Yehuda ^a,b   Walach, Natalio ^b,c   Kaplun, Vladymir ^a,b   Sigler, Erica ^d   Balan, Silviu ^a,b   Habot, Beni ^a,b  

^a Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attitude; Blood transfusions; Medical staff; Terminally ill cancer patients

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DETERIORATION; DYSPNEA; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STAFF; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD; SYMPTOM; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NURSES; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 5644235032     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.coc.0000136021.27983.29     Document Type: Article

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