Palliative care needs, symptoms, and treatment intensity along the disease trajectory in medical oncology outpatients: A retrospective chart review

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1743-1750

  Bükki, Johannes ^a,b   Scherbel, Julia ^a   Stiel, Stephanie ^a   Klein, Carsten ^a   Meidenbauer, Norbert ^a   Ostgathe, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hospital; Medical oncology; Outcome assessment (health care); Outpatient clinics; Palliative care; Quality of life; Signs and symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SOLID TUMOR; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT INTENSITY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); OUTPATIENTS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879149266     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-013-1721-y     Document Type: Review

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