Culture and end of life care: A scoping exercise in seven European countries

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Gysels, Marjolein ^a,b,d   Evans, Natalie ^a,e   Meñaca, Arantza ^a   Andrew, Erin ^a   Toscani, Franco ^c   Finetti, Sylvia ^c   Pasman, H Roeline ^e   Higginson, Irene ^b   Harding, Richard ^b   Pool, Robert ^a,d  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Istituto di Ricerca in Medicina Palliativa   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; BELGIUM; CAREGIVER; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEATH; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN UNION; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ITALY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NETHERLANDS; NORWAY; PORTUGAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TERMINAL CARE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

CULTURE; EUROPE; HUMANS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84859222353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034188     Document Type: Article

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