Hospital-based palliative medicine consultation: A randomized controlled trial

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 2038-2040

  Pantilat, Steven Z ^a   O'Riordan, David L ^a   Dibble, Suzanne L ^a   Seth Landefeld, C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANXIETY; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CARDIAC PATIENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET THERAPY; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPIRITUAL CARE;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SAN FRANCISCO; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 78650098806     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.460     Document Type: Letter

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