Randomized controlled trial of a structured intervention to facilitate end-of-life decision making in patients with advanced cancer

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 31, Issue 27, 2013, Pages 3403-3410

  Stein, Rhea A ^a   Sharpe, Louise ^a   Bell, Melanie L ^a   Boyle, Fran M ^a   Dunn, Stewart M ^a   Clarke, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DO NOT RESUSCITATE; END OF LIFE DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; METASTASIS; MOOD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY REHABILITATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REHABILITATION; RESUSCITATION; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVOR; TERMINAL CARE;

AGED; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; SURVIVORS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84899660940     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2011.40.8872     Document Type: Article

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