Informing severely ill patients: Needs, shortcomings and strategies for improvement

Breast Care

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 8-13

  Strohbuecker, Barbara ^a,b   Gaertner, Jan ^b   Stock, Stephanie ^a  

^a Institute for Health Economics and Clinical Epidemiology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Advanced cancer; Communication; Early integration; Palliative care; Patient information; Shared decisionmaking

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; ILLNESS TRAJECTORY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PAIN; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

EID: 79952274792     PISSN: 16613791     EISSN: 16613805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000324563     Document Type: Review

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