Transplantation and palliative care: The convergence of two seemingly opposite realities

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 373-382

  Molmenti, Ernesto P ^a   Dunn, Geoffrey P ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HAMOT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; CAREGIVER; DYING; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MENTAL DISEASE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT RIGHT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; REVIEW; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 17044377715     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2005.01.021     Document Type: Review

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