Improving Palliative Care for Cancer: Summary and Recommendations

✍ Scribed by Kathleen M. Foley, Hellen Gelband, Institute of Medicine

Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 79
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Summary and recommendations presented in this report builds on and takes forward an agenda set out by the 1997 IOM report Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life. Identifies the special needs of cancer patients and the importance of the clinical and research establishment involved in cancer care. Softcover.

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