Comparing the Palliative Care Needs of Those With Cancer to Those With Common Non-Cancer Serious Illness

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1079-1084.e1

  Bostwick, Doran ^a   Wolf, Steven ^a   Samsa, Greg ^a   Bull, Janet ^b   Taylor, Donald H ^c   Johnson, Kimberly S ^a   Kamal, Arif H ^a,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Four Seasons   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; palliative care delivery; serious illness; unmet needs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DYSPNEA; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; ODDS RATIO; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SELF REPORT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF REPORT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 85019753455     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2017.02.014     Document Type: Article

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