Bereaved parental evaluation of the quality of a palliative care program in Lebanon

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 310-316

  Saad, Rima ^a   Huijer, Huda Abu Saad ^a   Noureddine, Samar ^a   Muwakkit, Samar ^a   Saab, Raya ^a   Abboud, Miguel R ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Bereaved parents; Children with cancer; Communication; Palliative care; Quality of palliative care; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSTIPATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DYING; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EVALUATION; EWING SARCOMA; FATHER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INCOME; INSOMNIA; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; LEBANON; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MARRIAGE; MOTHER; NAUSEA; NERVOUSNESS; NEUROBLASTOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINDLE CELL SARCOMA; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; VOMITING;

ADULT; BEREAVEMENT; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; LEBANON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PARENTS; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 79958812550     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.23082     Document Type: Article

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