Mental health, treatment preferences, advance care planning, location, and quality of death in advanced cancer patients with dependent children

Cancer

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 399-409

  Nilsson, Matthew E ^a   Maciejewski, Paul K ^b   Zhang, Baohui ^a   Wright, Alexi A ^a   Trice, Elizabeth D ^a   Muriel, Anna C ^a,c   Friedlander, Robert J ^d   Fasciano, Karen M ^a,e   Block, Susan D ^a,e,f   Prigerson, Holly G ^a,e,f  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d New Hampshire Hematology Oncology PA   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance care planning; Cancer; Dependent children; Do not resuscitate; End of life; Hospice; Psychiatric illness; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PANIC; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADOLESCENT; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CAREGIVERS; CHILD; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPIRITUALITY; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 59449103480     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24002     Document Type: Article

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