Predictors of intensive end-of-life and hospice care in latino and white advanced cancer patients

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1249-1254

  Loggers, Elizabeth T ^a,b   Maciejewski, Paul K ^c,d   Jimenez, Rachel ^e   Nilsson, Matthew ^c   Paulk, Elizabeth ^f   Stieglitz, Heather ^f   Prigerson, Holly G ^c,d  

^a CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

^b SEATTLE CANCER CARE ALLIANCE   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERVIEW; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PATIENT; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF REPORT; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885747964     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: 15577740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2013.0164     Document Type: Article

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