The randomized fast-track trial in palliative care: Role, utility and ethics in the evaluation of interventions in palliative care?

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 741-747

  Higginson, Irene J ^a   Booth, Sara ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

end of life care; evaluation; intervention; non cancer; palliative care; randomised fast track trial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RANDOMIZED FAST TRACK TRIAL (TOPIC); THERAPY DELAY;

DATA COLLECTION; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PALLIATIVE CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 82955207731     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: 1477030X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216311421835     Document Type: Article

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