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Identifying the need for specialized palliative care in adult cancer patients – development and validation of a screening procedure based on proxy assessment by physicians and filter questions

BACKGROUND: One challenge in caring for cancer patients with incurable disease is the adequate identification of those in need for specialized palliative care (SPC). The study’s aim was to validate an easy to use phenomenological screening tool. METHODS: The German tool is based on the National Comp...

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Autores principales: Ostgathe, Christoph, Wendt, Kim N., Heckel, Maria, Kurkowski, Sandra, Klein, Carsten, Krause, Stefan W., Fuchs, Florian S., Bayer, Christian M., Stiel, Stephanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6604384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31262285
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-019-5809-8