Case conferences between general practitioners and specialist teams to plan end of life care of people with end stage heart failure and lung disease: An exploratory pilot study

BMC Palliative Care

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mitchell, Geoffrey ^a   Zhang, Jianzhen ^a   Burridge, Letitia ^a   Senior, Hugh ^a   Miller, Elizabeth ^a   Young, Sharleen ^a   Donald, Maria ^a   Jackson, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CASE MANAGEMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; EMERGENCY CARE; END STAGE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NURSE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PILOT STUDY; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84900842690     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472684X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-684X-13-24     Document Type: Article

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