Unbearability of suffering at the end of life: The development of a new measuring device, the SOS-V

BMC Palliative Care

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ruijs, Kees D M ^a   Onwuteaka Philipsen, Bregje D ^b   Van Der Wal, Gerrit ^b   Kerkhof, Ad Jfm ^b  

^a Primary Care Center de Greev   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NETHERLANDS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERSONAL NEEDS; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 72849129269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472684X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-684X-8-16     Document Type: Article

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