Patient characteristics associated with prognostic awareness: A study of a Canadian palliative care population using the InterRAI palliative care instrument

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 716-725

  Fisher, Kathryn ^a   Seow, Hsien ^a   Cohen, Joachim ^b   Declercq, Anja ^c   Freeman, Shannon ^d   Guthrie, Dawn M ^e  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c Centre for Sociological Research   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

interRAI palliative care assessment; palliative care; predictors of prognostic awareness; Prognostic awareness; psychological well being

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; AWARENESS; CANADA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INTERRAI PALLIATIVE CARE INSTRUMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AWARENESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925946079     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.08.008     Document Type: Article

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