Approaching end-of-life care in organ transplantation: The impact of transplant patients' death and dying

Progress in Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-62

  Wright, Linda ^a   Pape, Deborah ^b   Ross, Kelley ^a   Campbell, Michael ^b   Bowman, Kerry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b at the University of Toronto Wagner is also a faculty member of the Canadian Medical Associations' Physician Management Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DYING; EMOTION; FAMILY ATTITUDE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 33847714768     PISSN: 15269248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/152692480701700109     Document Type: Article

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