Vulnerability in palliative care research: Findings from a qualitative study of black Caribbean and white British patients with advanced cancer

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 440-444

  Koffman, J ^a   Morgan, M ^a   Edmonds, P ^a   Speck, P ^a   Higginson, I J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARD; TRUST; UNITED KINGDOM; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCHER-SUBJECT RELATIONS; TRUST; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WEST INDIES;

EID: 72449211764     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: 14734257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2008.027839     Document Type: Article

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