Quality of life among patients receiving palliative care in South Africa and Uganda: A multi-centred study

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Selman, Lucy E ^a   Higginson, Irene J ^a   Agupio, Godfrey ^b   Dinat, Natalya ^c   Downing, Julia ^d   Gwyther, Liz ^e   Mashao, Thandi ^f   Mmoledi, Keletso ^c   Moll, Tony ^g   Sebuyira, Lydia M ^h   Ikin, Barbara ⁱ   Harding, Richard ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Hospice Africa Uganda   (Uganda)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d AFRICAN PALLIATIVE CARE ASSOCIATION   (Uganda)

^e Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^g Church of Scotland Hospital   (South Africa)

^h MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

ⁱ Msunduzi Hospice Head Office   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSOULA VITAS QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUTH AFRICA; UGANDA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOUTH AFRICA; SPIRITUALITY; TERMINALLY ILL; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953747057     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-9-21     Document Type: Article

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