Early palliative home care: Evaluation of an interprofessional educational intervention for district nurses and general practitioners about nutritional care

SAGE Open Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Berggren, Erika ^a,b   Ödlund Olin, Ann ^a,c   Orrevall, Ylva ^a,c   Strang, Peter ^a,d   Johansson, Sven Erik ^a,b   Törnkvist, Lena ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM COUNTY COUNCIL   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d Stockholms Sjukhem Foundation   (Sweden)

Author keywords

District nurses; general practitioners; home care; interprofessional educational intervention; nutrition; palliative care; patients; primary health care; teamwork

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXERCISE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LIKERT SCALE; NURSE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TEAMWORK;

EID: 85048861748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20503121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2050312117726465     Document Type: Article

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