Timing of end-of-life care discussion with performance on end-of-life quality indicators in ovarian cancer

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 156-161

  Lopez Acevedo, Micael ^a,b   Havrilesky, Laura J ^a,b   Broadwater, Gloria ^b   Kamal, Arif H ^a,c   Abernethy, Amy P ^a,c   Berchuck, Andrew ^a,b   Alvarez Secord, Angeles ^a,b   Tulsky, James A ^a,b,c   Valea, Fidel ^a,b   Lee, Paula S ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggressiveness of care; End of life; Health care resource utilization; Hospice care; Ovarian cancer; Quality metrics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYING; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; OVARY CANCER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERMINAL CARE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FALLOPIAN TUBE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84879090291     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2013.04.010     Document Type: Article

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