Standardizing integration of palliative care into comprehensive cancer therapy-a disease specific approach

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1037-1043

  Gaertner, Jan ^a,b   Wolf, Juergen ^a   Hallek, Michael ^a   Glossmann, Jan Peter ^a   Voltz, Raymond ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Early integration; Palliative care; Palliative medicine; Policy; Shared care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; ONCOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BEREAVEMENT; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROGNOSIS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; TIME FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 80051597188     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-011-1131-y     Document Type: Article

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