Palliative care development in the Asia-Pacific region: An international survey from the Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network (APHN)

BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 23-31

  Yamaguchi, Takashi ^a,b   Kuriya, Meiko ^c   Morita, Tatsuya ^c   Agar, Meera ^d   Choi, Youn Seon ^e   Goh, Cynthia ^f   Lingegowda, K B ^g   Lim, Richard ^h   Liu, Rico K Y ⁱ   MacLeod, Roderick ^j   Ocampo, Rhodora ^k   Cheng, Shao Yi ^l   Phungrassami, Temsak ^m   Nguyen, Yen Phi ⁿ   Tsuneto, Satoru ^o  

^a TEINE KEIJINKAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c SEIREI MIKATAHARA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d Braeside Hospital   (Australia)

^e Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^f DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

^g KIDWAI MEMORIAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (India)

^h Selayang Hospital   (Malaysia)

ⁱ QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^k Madre de Amor Hospice Foundation Inc   (Philippines)

^l University Hospital   (Taiwan)

^m PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

ⁿ National Cancer Hospital   (Viet Nam)

^o OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAR EAST; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; FAR EAST; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; OCEANIA; PALLIATIVE CARE; SOCIETIES, HOSPITAL;

EID: 85014083666     PISSN: 2045435X     EISSN: 20454368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2013-000588     Document Type: Article

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