Provision of spiritual support to patients with advanced cancer by religious communities and associations with medical care at the end of life

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1109-1117

  Balboni, Tracy A ^a,b   Balboni, Michael ^a,b,c   Enzinger, Andrea C ^a,b   Gallivan, Kathleen ^d   Paulk, M Elizabeth ^e   Wright, Alexi ^a,b   Steinhauser, Karen ^f   VanderWeele, Tyler J ^g   Prigerson, Holly G ^a,b,d  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CAREGIVER; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HOSPICE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; RESUSCITATION; SPIRITUAL CARE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPIRITUALITY; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879561912     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.903     Document Type: Article

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