Nurses' experiences of Clinical use of a quality of life instrument in palliative care

Contemporary Nurse

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-38

  Hagelin, Carina Lundh ^a   Wengtröm, Yvonne ^a   Tishelman, Carol ^a,b   Fürst, Varl Johan ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Palliative care nursing; Qualitative research; Quality of life; Self assessment questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; NURSE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE;

HUMANS; NURSES; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 44449129591     PISSN: 10376178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/conu.2007.27.1.29     Document Type: Article

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