Community care for stroke patients in the last year of life: Results of a national retrospective survey of surviving family, friends and officials

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 112-119

  Addington Hall, Julia ^a   Lay, Margaret ^b   Altmann, Dan ^b   McCarthy, Mark ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community care; Informal caregivers; Quality of care; Stroke; Terminal care

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032382399     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2524.1998.00088.x     Document Type: Article

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