Frequency and factors associated with unexpected death in an acute palliative care unit: Expect the unexpected

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 822-827

  Bruera, Sebastian ^a   Chisholm, Gary ^a   Dos Santos, Renata ^b   Bruera, Eduardo ^a   Hui, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b BARRETOS CANCER HOSPITAL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; death; epidemiology; neoplasms; palliative care; prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; DEATH; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINAL CARE; TEXAS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEATH, SUDDEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINAL CARE; TEXAS;

EID: 84929703938     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.10.011     Document Type: Article

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