Interventions for improving palliative care for older people living in nursing care homes

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2011, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Hall, Sue ^a   Kolliakou, Anna ^a   Petkova, Hristina ^a   Froggatt, Katherine ^b   Higginson, Irene J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; ANALGESIA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DATA SYNTHESIS; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSESSMENT; DYING; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNITED STATES; AGED; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HOME FOR THE AGED; HOSPICE CARE; META ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; NURSING HOMES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION;

EID: 79953274783     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007132.pub2     Document Type: Review

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