How to move to a palliative approach to care for people with multimorbidity

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 345, Issue 7880, 2012, Pages

  Burge, Fred ^a   Lawson, Beverly ^a   Mitchell, Geoffrey ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMORBIDITY; EDITORIAL; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TERMINAL DISEASE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84868028122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e6324     Document Type: Editorial

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