## BACKGROUND. Palliative care should fit the needs of individual cancer patients and their families. Instruments can help to improve needs assessment. This review evaluates questionnaires for the systematic assessment of needs experienced by individual cancer patients for help, care, or support, a
The problems experienced by patients with cancer and their needs for palliative care
✍ Scribed by Bart H. P. Osse; Myrra J. F. J. Vernooij-Dassen; Egbert Schadé; Richard P. T. M. Grol
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 129 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0941-4355
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