How effective are volunteers at supporting people in their last year of life? A pragmatic randomised wait-list trial in palliative care (ELSA)

BMC Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Walshe, Catherine ^a   Dodd, Steven ^a   Hill, Matt ^c   Ockenden, Nick ^c   Payne, Sheila ^a   Preston, Nancy ^a   Perez Algorta, Guillermo ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NCVO   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Palliative care; Pragmatic clinical trial; Randomised controlled trial; Volunteers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPEN STUDY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TERMINAL CARE; VOLUNTEER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION QUALITY OF LIFE BRIEF SCALE; CLINICAL TRIAL; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TERMINAL CARE; VOLUNTEERS;

EID: 85002854523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-016-0746-8     Document Type: Review

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