End of life content in geriatric textbooks: What is the current situation?

BMC Palliative Care

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Huei, Yaw Wu ^a   Malik, Farida A ^b   Higginson, Irene J ^b  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DEATH EDUCATION; DISEASE COURSE; ETHICS; GERIATRIC CARE; HEART FAILURE; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PROGNOSIS; STROKE;

EID: 33746029069     PISSN: 1472684X     EISSN: 1472684X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-684X-5-5     Document Type: Article

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