Understanding provision of chemotherapy to patients with end stage cancer: Qualitative interview study

BMJ

Volumn 342, Issue 7802, 2011, Pages

  Buiting, Hilde M ^a   Rurup, Mette L ^a   Wijsbek, Henri ^a   Van Zuylen, Lia ^b   Den Hartogh, Govert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; NAUSEA; NURSE; ONCOLOGY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WORK EXPERIENCE;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84858999252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d1933     Document Type: Article

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