Evaluating the economic loss of caregiving for palliative care patients

Journal of Palliative Care

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 210-215

  Jacobs, Philip ^b   Dumont, Serge ^a   Turcotte, Veronique ^a   Anderson, Donna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cost of illness; Informal caregivers; Palliative care; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053995006     PISSN: 08258597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/082585971102700305     Document Type: Article

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