Effect of specialist palliative care services on quality of life in adults with advanced incurable illness in hospital, hospice, or community settings: Systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 357, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Gaertner, Jan ^a,b   Siemens, Waldemar ^a   Meerpohl, Joerg J ^c,d   Antes, Gerd ^c   Meffert, Cornelia ^a   Xander, Carola ^a   Stock, Stephanie ^e   Mueller, Dirk ^e   Schwarzer, Guido ^a   Becker, Gerhild ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Hildegard Palliative Centre   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d PARIS DESCARTES UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADULT DISEASE; ADVANCED CANCER; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; COMMUNITY CARE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DYSPNEA; EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF CANCER QLQ C30; FATIGUE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPICE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; META ANALYSIS; NAUSEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL WELL-BEING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RATING SCALE; RELIGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; STRESS; SURVIVAL TIME; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TERMINAL DISEASE; WELLBEING; ADULT; CAREGIVER; DECISION MAKING; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADULT; CAREGIVERS; DECISION MAKING; HOSPICES; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 85022322017     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j2925     Document Type: Article

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