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Emergency department-initiated palliative care for advanced cancer patients: protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: For patients with advanced cancer, visits to the emergency department (ED) are common. Such patients present to the ED with a specific profile of palliative care needs, including burdensome symptoms such as pain, dyspnea, or vomiting that cannot be controlled in other settings and a lack...

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Autores principales: Kandarian, Brandon, Morrison, R Sean, Richardson, Lynne D, Ortiz, Joanna, Grudzen, Corita R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4090632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24962353
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-15-251