Can malignant bowel obstruction in advanced cancer patients be treated at home?

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 431-433

  Porzio, Giampiero ^a,b   Aielli, Federica ^a   Verna, Lucilla ^a   Galletti, Brigida ^a   Shoja E Razavi, Ghazaleh ^a   Ficorella, Corrado ^b  

^a L'Aquila per la Vita Home Care Unit   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Home care; Malignant bowel obstruction

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MORPHINE; OCTREOTIDE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTIEMETICS; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; HOME CARE SERVICES, HOSPITAL-BASED; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; NEOPLASMS; OCTREOTIDE;

EID: 79952246312     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-010-1009-4     Document Type: Article

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