Key challenges and ways forward in researching the "good death": Qualitative in-depth interview and focus group study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 334, Issue 7592, 2007, Pages 521-524

  Kendall, Marilyn ^a   Harris, Fiona ^a   Boyd, Kirsty ^a   Sheikh, Aziz ^a   Murray, Scott A ^a   Brown, Duncan ^b   Mallinson, Ian ^a   Kearney, Nora ^c   Worth, Allison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b St Columba's Hospice   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EMOTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; INFORMED CONSENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHILOSOPHY; STANDARD; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EMOTIONS; GATEKEEPING; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL; THANATOLOGY;

EID: 33947534009     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39097.582639.55     Document Type: Article

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