Caring for the terminally ill patient with hematologic malignancies

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 313-314

  Gertz, Morie A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDNISONE; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BUDGET; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COST CONTROL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FATALITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LONG TERM CARE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICARE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NOTE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UNITED STATES;

HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; TERMINAL CARE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 67650896222     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: 10292403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10428190802714255     Document Type: Note

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