Spousal Illness Burden Is Associated with Delayed Use of Hospice Care in Terminally Ill Patients

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 3-10

  Christakis, Nicholas A ^a   Iwashyna, Theodore J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 0007491627     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: 15577740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.1998.1.3     Document Type: Article

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