Expectations to and evaluation of a palliative home-care team as seen by patients and carers
- 16 May 2006
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Supportive Care in Cancer
- Vol. 14 (12), 1232-1240
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-006-0082-1
Abstract
Although the number of palliative home-care teams is increasing, knowledge of what patients and principal informal carers expect from a home-care team is sparse. We aimed to elucidate this as well as evaluate a home-care team.Keywords
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