Vulnerability and access to care for South Asian Sikh and Muslim patients with life limiting illness in Scotland: Prospective longitudinal qualitative study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 338, Issue 7693, 2009, Pages

  Worth, Allison ^a   Irshad, Tasneem ^a   Bhopal, Raj ^a   Brown, Duncan ^b   Lawton, Julia ^a   Grant, Elizabeth ^a   Murray, Scott ^a   Kendall, Marilyn ^a   Adam, James ^c   Gardee, Rafik ^d   Sheikh, Aziz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Boswall Road   (United Kingdom)

^c NHS GREATER GLASGOW AND CLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d National Resource Centre for Ethnic Minority Health   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MOSLEM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACISM; SOUTH ASIA; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ASIA, WESTERN; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAREGIVERS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CULTURE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; ISLAM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND; SIKKIM; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84859005644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b183     Document Type: Article

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