When patients and families feel abandoned

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1713-1717

  Epner, Daniel E ^a   Ravi, Vinod ^a   Baile, Walter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Physician patient relations; Provider

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXPECTATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SALVAGE THERAPY; STIGMA;

COMMUNICATION; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FAMILY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; REFUSAL TO TREAT; TRUST;

EID: 83255184705     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-010-1007-6     Document Type: Article

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