Attitudes towards palliative care in primary metastatic cancer: A survey among oncologists

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 122, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 45-49

  Kierner, Katharina A ^a   Gartner, Verena ^a   Bartsch, Rupert ^a   Hladschik Kermer, Birgit ^a   Gruber, Anna ^a   Hassler, Marco ^a   Watzke, Herbert H ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Advance directive; Hospice; Metastatic cancer; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE; DOCETAXEL; FULVESTRANT; GEMCITABINE; NAVELBINE; RISEDRONIC ACID; ZOLEDRONIC ACID;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVING WILL; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PATIENT INFORMATION; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIMARY TUMOR; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HOSPICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIANS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 77749343190     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-009-1295-3     Document Type: Article

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