Hospice and Emergency Room Use by Disadvantaged Men Dying of Prostate Cancer

Journal of Urology

Volumn 181, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2084-2089

  Bergman, Jonathan ^a   Kwan, Lorna ^b   Fink, Arlene ^a   Connor, Sarah E ^a   Litwin, Mark S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency treatment; hospice care; prostate; prostatic neoplasms; terminal care

Indexed keywords

ZOLEDRONIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPICE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINAL CARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POVERTY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 64049097099     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2009.01.030     Document Type: Article

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