End-of-life Care

Clinical Psycho-Oncology: An International Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 249-269

  Breitbart, William ^a,b   Chochinov, Harvey Max ^c,d   Alici, Yesne ^e  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^e Central Regional Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective pain and symptom management; End of life care, 'demoralization' and DHD, assisted suicide or euthanasia; Non pharmacological, in anxiety and distress, supportive psychotherapy; Palliative care programmes models of care delivery, behavioural interventions; Palliative care, disease not responsive to curative treatment; Problematic patient behaviour, non compliance due to anxiety; Psychiatric disorders in palliative care; PTSD, and activation in the dying; Suicidal ideation, terminally ill and thoughts of suicide; Terminally ill cancer, salient aspects of care

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886211597     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119941101.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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