Quality of out-of-hospital palliative emergency care depends on the expertise of the emergency medical team-a prospective multi-centre analysis

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1499-1506

  Wiese, Christoph H R ^a   Bartels, Utz E ^b   Marczynska, Karolina ^b   Ruppert, David ^b   Graf, Bernhard M ^c   Hanekop, Gerd G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emergency medicine; End of life decision; Palliative care team; Palliative medical care; Palliative medicine; Pre hospital emergency physician

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME CARE; HOMEBOUND PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL CARE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 71349088708     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-009-0616-4     Document Type: Article

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