On the Health Consequences of Bereavement

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 319, Issue 8, 1988, Pages 510-512

  Rogers, Malcolm P ^a   Reich, Peter ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEREAVEMENT; CHILD DEATH; EDITORIAL; FATHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTHER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

EID: 0023805419     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198808253190808     Document Type: Editorial

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