Non-cancer patients in specialized palliative care in Germany: What are the problems?

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 148-152

  Ostgathe, Christoph ^a,f   Alt Epping, Bernd ^b   Golla, Heidrun ^c   Gaertner, Jan ^c   Lindena, Gabriele ^d   Radbruch, Lukas ^e   Voltz, Raymond ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d Clinical Analysis Research and Application   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Documentation; Epidemiology; Non cancer; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APPETITE DISORDER; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; DISORIENTATION; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NAUSEA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PNEUMONIA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPINE DISEASE; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DOCUMENTATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH PLANNING; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING CARE; PALLIATIVE CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TERMINALLY ILL; WORKLOAD;

EID: 79953859672     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216310385370     Document Type: Article

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