Does a social model of hospice day care affect advanced cancer patients' use of other health and social services? A prospective quasi-experimental trial

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 627-637

  Higginson, Irene J ^a   Gao, Wei ^a   Amesbury, Brendan ^b   Normand, Charles ^c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b St Wilfrid's Hospice   (United Kingdom)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Day care; End of life; Evaluation; Hospice; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIAL WORK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DAY CARE; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 77953614988     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-009-0706-3     Document Type: Article

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