Palliative and end-of-life care in the global response to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 643-646

  Harding, Richard ^a,e   Foley, Kathleen M ^b   Connor, Stephen R ^c   Jaramillo, Ernesto ^d  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance   (United Kingdom)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACHEXIA; COST CONTROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSPNEA; EMOTIONAL STRESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMOPTYSIS; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; LONG TERM CARE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; NOTE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLYPHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPIRITUAL CARE; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINAL CARE; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 84864145633     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(12)70084-1     Document Type: Note

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