Improve care and comfort: Use the label "dying"

Journal of Palliative Care

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 30-36

  Flaming, Don ^a  

^a School of Nursing   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PROGNOSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TERMINAL CARE;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; STEREOTYPING; TERMINAL CARE; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 0034203122     PISSN: 08258597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/082585970001600206     Document Type: Review

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