The cost of home care for patients with malignant neoplasms

Home Healthcare Nurse

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 594-599

  Kouli, Eugenia ^a   Kaitelidou, Daphne ^a   Kalokerinou Anagnostopoulou, Athena ^a   Siskou, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOME CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; STATISTICS;

AGED; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HOME CARE SERVICES, HOSPITAL-BASED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 58949097892     PISSN: 0884741X     EISSN: 15390713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NHH.0000341222.87274.13     Document Type: Article

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