Living with breathlessness: A survey of caregivers of breathless patients with lung cancer or heart failure

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 647-656

  Malik, Farida A ^a   Gysels, Marjolein ^a,b   Higginson, Irene J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cancer; caregiver burden; Dyspnoea; end of life care; family; heart disease; home; hospice; hospital; outcome; palliative

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER PATIENT; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARE AND CARING; CAREGIVER; CAREGIVER BURDEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REVIEW;

CANCER; CAREGIVER BURDEN; DYSPNOEA; END-OF-LIFE CARE; FAMILY; HEART DISEASE; HOME; HOSPICE; HOSPITAL; OUTCOME; PALLIATIVE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; DEPRESSION; DYSPNEA; ENGLAND; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LONDON; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84879750469     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: 1477030X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216313488812     Document Type: Review

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