Coordination of end-of-life care for patients with lung cancer and those with advanced COPD: Are there transferable lessons? A longitudinal qualitative study

Primary Care Respiratory Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 46-51

  Epiphaniou, Eleni ^a   Shipman, Cathy ^a   Harding, Richard ^a   Mason, Bruce ^b   Murray, Scott A A ^b   Higginson, Irene J ^a   Daveson, Barbara A ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coordination; COPD; End of life care; Keyworker; Lung cancer; Palliative care; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY CARE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG CANCER; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; VERY ELDERLY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84895092947     PISSN: 14714418     EISSN: 14751534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4104/pcrj.2014.00004     Document Type: Article

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