Identifying the palliative care needs of patients living with cerebral tumors and metastases: A retrospective analysis

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 527-534

  Gofton, Teneille E ^a   Graber, Jerome ^a   Carver, Alan ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical neurology; End of life care; Metastatic tumor; Palliative care; Primary brain tumor

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER BURDEN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DELIRIUM; DEPRESSION; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIPLOPIA; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PRIMARY TUMOR; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPASTICITY; SYMPTOM; TERMINAL CARE; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASM GRADING; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 84864045214     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: 15737373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11060-012-0855-y     Document Type: Article

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