Not alone: Peer support through audio teleconferencing for rural women with breast cancer

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 379-381

  Curran, Vernon R ^a   Church, Jon G ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SHORT SURVEY; SUPPORT GROUP; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 0032566321     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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