Toward Optimal End-of-Life Care for Patients with Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Insights from a Multicentre Study

Graeme M Rocker; Peter M Dodek; Daren K Heyland; for the Canadian Researchers at the End of Life Network

doi:10.1155/2008/369162

Canadian Respiratory Journal (Jan 2008)

Toward Optimal End-of-Life Care for Patients with Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Insights from a Multicentre Study

Graeme M Rocker,
Peter M Dodek,
Daren K Heyland,
for the Canadian Researchers at the End of Life Network

Affiliations

Graeme M Rocker: Department of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Peter M Dodek: Department of Medicine, Center for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St Paul’s Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Daren K Heyland: Department of Medicine, Kingston General Hospital, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
for the Canadian Researchers at the End of Life Network

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/369162
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 15, no. 5
pp. 249 – 254

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Understanding patients’ needs and perspectives is fundamental to improving end-of-life (EOL) care. However, little is known of what quality care means to patients who have advanced lung disease.

Published in Canadian Respiratory Journal

ISSN: 1198-2241 (Print); 1916-7245 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the respiratory system
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/7503

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