A mixed method feasibility study of a patient- and family-centred advance care planning intervention for cancer patients.

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Published in BMC Palliat Care on May 16, 2015

Authors

Natasha Michael1,2, Clare O'Callaghan3,4,5,6, Angela Baird7, Karla Gough8, Mei Krishnasamy9,10, Nathaniel Hiscock11, Josephine Clayton12,13

Author Affiliations

1: Palliative Care Service, Cabrini Health, 646 High Street, Prahran, Victoria, 3181, Australia. NMichael@cabrini.com.au.
2: Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, 3800, Australia. NMichael@cabrini.com.au.
3: Palliative Care Service, Cabrini Health, 646 High Street, Prahran, Victoria, 3181, Australia. COCallaghan@cabrini.com.au.
4: Caritas Christi Hospice, St Vincent's Hospital, 104 Studley Park Rd Kew, Victoria, 3101, Australia. COCallaghan@cabrini.com.au.
5: Department of Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia. COCallaghan@cabrini.com.au.
6: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, St Andrews Place, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia. COCallaghan@cabrini.com.au.
7: Palliative Care Service, Cabrini Health, 646 High Street, Prahran, Victoria, 3181, Australia. abaird@cabrini.com.au.
8: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, St Andrews Place, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia. Karla.Gough@petermac.org.
9: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, St Andrews Place, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia. meinir.krishnasamy@petermac.org.
10: Department of Nursing, University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, 3053, Australia. meinir.krishnasamy@petermac.org.
11: Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, 3800, Australia. njhis3@student.monash.edu.
12: HammondCare Palliative and Supportive Care Service, Greenwich Hospital, 97-115 River Road, Greenwich, NSW, 2065, Australia. josephine.clayton@sydney.edu.au.
13: Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, New South Wales, 2006, Australia. josephine.clayton@sydney.edu.au.

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