Breaking bad news: Parents' experience of learning that their child has leukaemia

Irish Medical Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  O'Shea, J ^a   Smith, O ^b   O'Marcaigh, A ^b   McMahon, C ^b   Geoghegan, R ^b   Cotter, M ^b,c  

^a Department of Medicine National University of Ireland Cork   (Ireland)

^b OUR LADY S CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c CHILDREN S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; COMMUNICATION SKILL; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PARENT; PARENTAL NOTIFICATION; PATIENT INFORMATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD WELFARE; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; LEUKEMIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SATISFACTION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LEUKEMIA; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 38049136997     PISSN: 03323102     EISSN: 03323102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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