The challenges and suffering of caring for people with primary malignant glioma: Qualitative perspectives on improving current supportive and palliative care practices

BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 68-76

  Collins, Anna ^a   Lethborg, Carrie ^a   Brand, Caroline ^b,c   Gold, Michelle ^d   Moore, Gaye ^a   Sundararajan, Vijaya ^b,c   Murphy, Michael ^a   Philip, Jennifer ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d Palliative Care Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CAREGIVER; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TERMINAL CARE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TERMINAL CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84910126192     PISSN: 2045435X     EISSN: 20454368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000419     Document Type: Article

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