End-of-life care for veterans with schizophrenia and cancer

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 725-728

  Ganzini, Linda ^a   Socherman, Robert ^a   Duckart, Jonathan ^a   Shores, Molly ^b  

^a PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL DISEASE; NEOPLASM; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; UNITED STATES; VETERAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPICE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERMINAL CARE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 77954282892     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2010.61.7.725     Document Type: Article

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