Integrating palliative care into the trajectory of cancer care

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 159-171

  Hui, David ^a   Bruera, Eduardo ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAREGIVER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SATISFACTION; SYMPTOM; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; CLINICAL PATHWAY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NEOPLASMS; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84959140744     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2015.201     Document Type: Review

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