End-of-life care among head and neck cancer patients

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 733-739

  Shuman, Andrew G ^a   Yang, Ye ^b   Taylor, Jeremy M G ^b   Prince, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

End of life care; Head and neck cancer; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY ASSESSMENT OF TREATMENT AT THE END OF LIFE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TERMINAL CARE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VALIDATION STUDY; AGED; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 80051736679     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0194599810397603     Document Type: Article

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