Facing uncertainty: The lived experience of palliative care

Palliative and Supportive Care

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 367-376

  McKechnie, Roz ^a   Macleod, Rod ^b   Keeling, Sally ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Death and dying; Embodiment; Palliative; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NEW ZEALAND; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; UNCERTAINTY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; NEOPLASMS; NEW ZEALAND; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; TERMINALLY ILL; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 35548998267     PISSN: 14789515     EISSN: 14789523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1478951507000569     Document Type: Article

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