Truth and consequences: Parental perspectives on autopsy after the death of a child

Pediatric Intensive Care Nursing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 6-15

  Macdonald, Mary Ellen ^a,b,c,d   Liben, Stephen ^b,d   Cohen, S Robin ^b  

^a CIHR New Emerging Team: Family Caregiving in Palliative and End of Life Care ^*  (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

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