Attitudes and referral patterns of lung cancer specialists in Europe to Specialized Palliative Care (SPC) and the practice of Early Palliative Care (EPC)

BMC Palliative Care

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Charalambous, Haris ^a   Pallis, Athanasios ^b   Hasan, Baktiar ^b   O'Brien, Mary ^b,c  

^a Bank of Cyprus Group Oncology Centre   (Cyprus)

^b EORTC DATA CENTER   (Belgium)

^c ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Lung cancer specialists; Referrals; Specialized palliative care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EUROPEAN; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HUMAN; ILLNESS TRAJECTORY; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL ONCOLOGIST; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PULMONOLOGIST; RADIATION ONCOLOGIST; TERMINAL CARE; THORACIC SURGEON;

EID: 84989173769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472684X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-684X-13-59     Document Type: Article

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