Associations between successful palliative cancer pathways and community nurse involvement

BMC Palliative Care

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Neergaard, Mette Asbjoern ^a,b   Vedsted, Peter ^b   Olesen, Frede ^b   Sokolowski, Ineta ^b   Jensen, Anders Bonde ^a   Sondergaard, Jens ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; RELATIVE;

EID: 74549162772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472684X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-684X-8-18     Document Type: Article

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