United States Acculturation and Cancer Patients' End-of-Life Care

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Wright, Alexi A ^a,b   Stieglitz, Heather ^c   Kupersztoch, Yankel M ^d   Paulk, M Elizabeth ^d   Kim, Yookyung ^e   Katz, Ingrid T ^b,f   Munoz, Francisco ^g   Jimenez, Rachel B ^a,b   Mutchler, Jan ^h   Rivera, Lorna ^h   Back, Anthony L ⁱ   Prigerson, Holly G ^a,b,f  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTHPLACE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYING; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ACCULTURATION SCALE;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; AGED; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874863011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058663     Document Type: Article

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