Supporting cancer patients dying at home or at a hospital for taiwanese family caregivers

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 151-157

  Tang, Siew Tzuh ^a,b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Caregiving burden; End of life care; Home deaths; Place of death; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DYING; FAMILY COUNSELING; FEMALE; FINANCE; HEALTH; HOME; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; TAIWAN; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOME NURSING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; TAIWAN; TERMINAL CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68149160993     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCC.0000339263.52184.7e     Document Type: Article

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