Caring at the end of life: Do cancer caregivers differ from other caregivers?

BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 513-517

  Girgis, Afaf ^a   Abernethy, Amy P ^b,c   Currow, David C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CAREGIVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NURSING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

AGED; CAREGIVERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 84949423887     PISSN: 2045435X     EISSN: 20454368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2013-000495     Document Type: Article

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