Respecting the Spiritual Side of Advanced Cancer Care: a Systematic Review

Current Oncology Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1-9

  Piderman, Katherine M ^a   Kung, Simon ^a   Jenkins, Sarah M ^a   Euerle, Terin T ^a   Yoder, Timothy J ^a   Kwete, Gracia M ^a   Lapid, Maria I ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced cancer; Chaplains; Palliative care; Spirituality; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONVERSATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMORALIZATION; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRUG USE; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOLISTIC CARE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERVENTION STUDY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; METASTASIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RELIGION; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SPIRITUAL CARE; SPIRITUAL HEALING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TERMINAL CARE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPIRITUALITY; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84922738223     PISSN: 15233790     EISSN: 15346269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11912-014-0429-6     Document Type: Review

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