The quality of dying and death in cancer and its relationship to palliative care and place of death

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 839-851

  Hales, Sarah ^a,b   Chiu, Aubrey ^a   Husain, Amna ^c,d   Braun, Michal ^e   Rydall, Anne ^a   Gagliese, Lucia ^a,f   Zimmermann, Camilla ^a,c   Rodin, Gary ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

^f YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

bereavement; cancer; caregivers; good death; palliative care; place of death; Quality of dying and death

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CARE HOSPITAL; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CANADA; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; DEATH; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DYING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOME; HOSPICE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PALLIATIVE CARE UNIT; PLACE OF DEATH; QUALITY OF DYING; QUALITY OF DYING AND DEATH QUESTIONNAIRE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STRESS; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOM CONTROL; TERMINAL CARE; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; ONTARIO; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911393916     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2013.12.240     Document Type: Article

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