Early palliative care for patients with advanced cancer: A cluster-randomised controlled trial

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9930, 2014, Pages 1721-1730

  Zimmermann, Camilla ^a,b,c   Swami, Nadia ^c   Krzyzanowska, Monika ^a,c   Hannon, Breffni ^a,c   Leighl, Natasha ^a,c   Oza, Amit ^a,c   Moore, Malcolm ^a,c   Rydall, Anne ^c   Rodin, Gary ^b,c   Tannock, Ian ^a,c   Donner, Allan ^d   Lo, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY INTERVENTION; EDMONTON SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT SYSTEM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CHRONIC ILLNESS THERAPY SPIRITUAL WELL BEING SCALE; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE AT THE END OF LIFE SCALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; CANADA; CANCER REHABILITATION; CANCER REHABILITATION EVALUATION SYSTEM; CONSULTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CHRONIC ILLNESS THERAPY; INFORMED CONSENT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT CARE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; WELLBEING;

AGED; EARLY MEDICAL INTERVENTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ONTARIO; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84900797056     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62416-2     Document Type: Article

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