Incorporation of a 'coping with the death of a child' module into the pediatric advanced life support (PALS) curriculum

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 242-246

  Wolfram, R Wayne ^a   Timmel, Daniel J ^b   Doyle, Cindy R ^a   Ackerman, Alice D ^b   Lebet, Ruth ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS CHILDREN S CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency medicine; Grief; Medical education; Pediatric; Pediatric Advanced Life Support; Sudden death; Survivors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMOTIONALITY; GRIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN DEATH;

EID: 0031932366     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1998.tb02620.x     Document Type: Article

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