Out-of-hours palliative care provided by GP co-operatives: Availability, content and effect of transferred information

BMC Palliative Care

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Schweitzer, Bart P M ^a   Blankenstein, Nettie ^a   Deliens, Luc ^a,b   Van Der Horst, Henriette ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TELECONSULTATION; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

EID: 72849150438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472684X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-684X-8-17     Document Type: Article

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