Provision of spiritual care to patients with advanced cancer: Associations with medical care and quality of life near death

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 445-452

  Balboni, Tracy Anne ^a   Paulk, Mary Elizabeth ^a   Balboni, Michael J ^a   Phelps, Andrea C ^a   Loggers, Elizabeth Trice ^a   Wright, Alexi A ^a   Block, Susan D ^a   Lewis, Eldrin F ^a   Peteet, John R ^a   Prigerson, Holly Gwen ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; COUNSELING; DEATH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; SCORING SYSTEM; SPIRITUAL CARE; TERMINAL CARE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SPIRITUAL THERAPIES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 75749156275     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2009.24.8005     Document Type: Article

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