Improvements in end-of-life care with a protocol-based pathway for cancer patients dying in a Singapore hospital

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 483-493

  Neo, Patricia S H ^a   Poon, Mai Chan ^a   Peh, Tan Ying ^a   Ong, Simon Y K ^a   Koo, Wen Hsin ^a   Santoso, Ulina ^b   Goh, Cynthia R ^a   Yee, Alethea C P ^a  

^a DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

End of life care; Liverpool care pathway; Symptom control

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTICIPATORY GUIDANCE; CANCER PATIENT; CHEST INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NAUSEA; NEOPLASM; PAIN; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESTLESSNESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SINGAPORE; TERMINAL CARE; VOMITING;

EID: 84870718480     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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