Cancer patients' satisfaction with doctors and preferences about death in a university hospital in Turkey

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Durusoy, Raika ^a   Karaca, Burcak ^a   Junushova, Bermeth ^a   Uslu, Ruchan ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cancer death; Cancer patient satisfaction; Communication skills; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TERMINAL CARE; TRUST; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81555195658     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2011.03.010     Document Type: Article

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