Early palliative care for patients with advanced cancer: How to make it work?

Current Opinion in Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 342-352

  Gaertner, Jan ^a   Weingärtner, Vera ^b,c   Wolf, Jürgen ^b   Voltz, Raymon ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

early integration; early palliative care; palliative cancer care; palliative care; supportive care

Indexed keywords

MIRTAZAPINE; MORPHINE;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HYPERVOLEMIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TERMINAL CARE;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84879889046     PISSN: 10408746     EISSN: 1531703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCO.0b013e3283622c5e     Document Type: Review

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