Communication and awareness about dying in the 1990s

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 459-468

  Field, David ^a   Copp, Gina ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication; Nurse patient relations; Physician patient relations; Terminal care; Terminally ill

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYING; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; POLICY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AWARENESS; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 0032738140     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/026921699668763479     Document Type: Review

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