Doctors' strategies when breaking bad news to terminally ill patients

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 565-574

  Friedrichsen, Maria J ^a   Strang, Peter M ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONVERSATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

EID: 0041975028     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/109662103768253678     Document Type: Article

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