Development of the palliative care needs assessment tool (PC-NAT) for use by multi-disciplinary health professionals

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 956-964

  Waller, Amy ^a   Girgis, A ^a   Currow, D ^b   Lecathelinais, C ^a   Johnson, Claire ^c   Mitchell, Geoff ^c   Kristjanson, Linda ^c   Yates, Patsy ^c   Kelly, Brian ^c   Tattersall, Martin ^c   Sibbritt, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Centre for Health Research and Psycho oncology ^*

Author keywords

Cancer; Caregiver; Needs assessment; Palliative care; Patient

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; EARLY INTERVENTION; FACE VALIDITY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSE; PALLIATIVE CARE NEEDS ASSESSMENT TOOL; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE;

CAREGIVERS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 57149124096     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216308098797     Document Type: Article

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