The role of palliative care in patients with neurological diseases

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 292-295

  Borasio, Gian Domenico ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FAMILY DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SPIRITUAL CARE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PALLIATIVE CARE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84877577076     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2013.49     Document Type: Review

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