A national rollout of an insufficiently evaluated practice: How evidence based are our end-of-life care policies?

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 802-

  Chan, Raymond ^a,b   Webster, Joan ^a  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; LETTER; TERMINAL CARE;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS;

EID: 79959703677     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: 15577740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2011.0050     Document Type: Letter

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