Symptoms, care needs and diagnosis in palliative cancer patients in acute care hospitals: A 5-year follow-up survey

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 460-466

  Sandgren, Anna ^a,b   Fridlund, Bengt ^a,c   Nyberg, Per ^d   Strang, Peter ^e,f   Petersson, Kerstin ^b   Thulesius, Hans ^b  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Kronoberg County Council   (Sweden)

^c JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f Stockholms Sjukhems FoUU ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; COLORECTAL CANCER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NAUSEA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUESTIONNAIRE; STOMACH CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PALLIATIVE CARE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWEDEN;

EID: 77951226535     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02841860903463991     Document Type: Article

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