Exploring the dynamics of interdisciplinary palliative care teams in providing psychosocial care: "Everybody thinks that everybody can do it and they can't"

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 191-196

  O'Connor, Moira ^a   Fisher, Colleen ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL WORKER; TEAMWORK; VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; SPECIALIZATION;

EID: 79951686038     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2010.0229     Document Type: Article

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