The palliative care triangle: A strategy to help make difficult surgical decisions

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 522-523

  Sutton Jr , John E ^a  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMMUNICATION SKILL; EMOTION; FAMILY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETREATMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SURGEON; TERMINAL DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79956020108     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.68     Document Type: Short Survey

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