Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Volume 39, Issue 1 , Pages 23-32 , January 2010

Late-Stage HIV/AIDS Patients' and Their Familial Caregivers' Agreement on the Palliative Care Outcome Scale

  • Rachel Krug, MA

      Affiliations

    • Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
    • ,
  • Daniel Karus, MS

      Affiliations

    • Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
    • ,
  • Peter A. Selwyn, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
    • ,
  • Victoria H. Raveis, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Victoria H. Raveis, PhD, Center for the Psychosocial Study of Health and Illness, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.

,Accepted 14 May 2009.

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 This research was supported by Grant No. RO1-NR008343 from the National Institute of Nursing Research (V. H. Raveis, Principal Investigator).

PII: S0885-3924(09)00708-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2009.05.010

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Volume 39, Issue 1 , Pages 23-32 , January 2010

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