Discussing goals of care for a delirious advanced cancer patient in the hospice setting

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1313-1316

  Ha, Caroline ^a   Reddy, Akhila ^a   Tavel, Linda ^b   Bruera, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b Odyssey Hospice   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CARCINOMATOUS PERITONITIS; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GASTROSTOMY; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; RESUSCITATION; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION; SYMPTOM; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; DELIRIUM; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 84885695725     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: 15577740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2012.0366     Document Type: Article

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