Coping with grieving relatives and making a request for organs: Principles for staff training

Medical Teacher

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 247-249

  Randhawa, Gurch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GRIEF; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL STAFF; ORGAN DONOR; STAFF TRAINING; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0031748490     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421599881002     Document Type: Article

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