GPs' views on transfer of information about terminally ill patients to the out-of-hours co-operative

BMC Palliative Care

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Schweitzer, Bart ^a   Blankenstein, Nettie ^a   Willekens, Maartje ^b   Terpstra, Elmi ^b   Giesen, Paul ^b   Deliens, Luc ^c,d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

EID: 74949106795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472684X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-684X-8-19     Document Type: Article

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