EOL-Care Case Study Analysis

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Siew Tzuh Tang has her expertise in understanding prognosis awareness and preferences of EOL care of terminally ill cancer patients and their family caregivers and longitudinal impact of changes of prognosis awareness and preferences of EOL care on patients’ psychological well-being and quality of life, changes in physician-patient EOL discussion during terminally ill cancer patients’ dying process and its impact on subsequent aggressive or hospice care received before death, family caregivers’ caregiving burden, EOL-care decision conflicts and their impact, and how bereaved family caregivers use internal and external resources to overcome challenges during their loved one’s dying process and in

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