Death from renal failure eighty years on: How far have we come?

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1236-1238

  Murtagh, Fliss E M ^a   Higginson, Irene J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAREGIVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; DYING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE; PALLIATIVE CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37349076246     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2007.9846     Document Type: Editorial

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