End-of-life care content in 50 textbooks from multiple specialties

JAMA

Volumn 283, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 771-778

  Rabow, Michael W ^a   Hardie, Grace E ^a   Fair, Joan M ^a   McPhee, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOK; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRY; SURGERY; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0033976388     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.283.6.771     Document Type: Article

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