Factors influencing death at home in terminally ill cancer patients

Geriatrics and Gerontology International

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 154-160

  Nakamura, Shunsuke ^a   Kuzuya, Masafumi ^a   Funaki, Yoshimasa ^a   Matsui, Wataru ^a   Ishiguro, Naoki ^a,b  

^a Department of Home Care Management ^*  (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Death at home; Factors; Home medical care services; Japan; Place of death; Terminally ill cancer

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT COUNSELING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER SUPPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; FAMILY DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT PREFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 77952507894     PISSN: 14441586     EISSN: 14470594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0594.2009.00570.x     Document Type: Article

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