End-of-Life Care for Undocumented Immigrants With Advanced Cancer: Documenting the Undocumented

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 784-788

  Jaramillo, Sylvia ^a   Hui, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Emigrants; health care disparities; Hispanic Americans; immigrants; neoplasms; palliative care; terminal care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; COLITIS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FUNDING; HISPANIC; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFERIOR VENA CAVA THROMBUS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PLEURA EFFUSION; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TERMINAL CARE; UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT; YOUNG ADULT; FATALITY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

FATAL OUTCOME; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; TERMINAL CARE; UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84954286931     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.11.009     Document Type: Article

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