Striving for balance: Palliative care patients' experiences of making everyday choices

Journal of Palliative Care

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-17

  Bottorff, Joan L ^a   Steele, Rose ^a   Davies, Betty ^a   Garossino, Candy ^b   Porterfield, Pat ^c   Shaw, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNCERTAINTY;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 0032018091     PISSN: 08258597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/082585979801400103     Document Type: Article

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