Timing of Survey Administration after Hospice Patient Death: Stability of Bereaved Respondents

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 17-27

  Dibiasio, Eleanor L ^a   Clark, Melissa A ^a   Gozalo, Pedro L ^a   Spence, Carol ^b   Casarett, David J ^c   Teno, Joan M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bereavement; grief; Hospice; quality measurement; response stability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRIEF; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HOSPICE PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOME; PERCEPTION; POPULATION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; DEATH; HOSPICE; HOSPICE CARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVIEW; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BEREAVEMENT; DEATH; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPICES; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84937521858     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.01.006     Document Type: Article

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