Palliative care provision for patients with a hematological malignancy: Can we do more?

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 239-240

  Button, Elise ^a,b   Chan, Raymond Javan ^a,b  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; EDITORIAL; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; NURSING ROLE; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL CARE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; NURSING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84902577941     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: 15389804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0000000000000164     Document Type: Editorial

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