Cancer cachexia: Global awareness and guideline implementation on the web

BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 155-160

  Mauri, Davide ^a   Tsiara, Anna ^a   Valachis, Antonis ^b   Kalopita, Konstantina ^a   Tsali, Lampriani ^a   Tolis, Panagiotis ^a   Polyzos, Nikolaos P ^c  

^a General Hospital of Lamia   (Greece)

^b Onkologkliniken Sörmland Mälarsjukhuset ^*  (Sweden)

^c CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACHEXIA; COMPLICATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEOPLASMS; ONCOLOGY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE;

CACHEXIA; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNATIONALITY; INTERNET; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 84886995066     PISSN: 2045435X     EISSN: 20454368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000227     Document Type: Article

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