A need for scalable outpatient palliative care interventions

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9930, 2014, Pages 1699-1700

  Block, Susan D ^a,b   Billings, J Andrew ^b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONSULTATION; CONVERSATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CHRONIC ILLNESS THERAPY SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING SCALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NOTE; NURSE; ONCOLOGY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE AT END OF LIFE SCALE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CHRONIC ILLNESS THERAPY SPIRITUAL WELL BEING SCALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RATING SCALE;

EARLY MEDICAL INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE;

EID: 84900802107     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62676-8     Document Type: Note

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