Do oncologists engage in bereavement practices? a survey of the Israeli society of clinical oncology and radiation therapy (ISCORT)

Oncologist

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 317-326

  Corn, Benjamin W ^a   Shabtai, Esther ^a   Merimsky, Ofer ^a   Inbar, Moshe ^a   Rosenbaum, Eli ^a   Meirovitz, Amichay ^b   Wexler, Isaiah D ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Death; Oncologists; Religion; Spirituality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; BURNOUT; CANCER MORTALITY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FAMILY COUNSELING; HUMAN RELATION; ISRAEL; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ONCOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SELF CONCEPT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE;

EID: 77950529280     PISSN: 10837159     EISSN: 1549490X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.2009-0257     Document Type: Article

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