The turning point: Identifying end-of-life care in everyday health care practice

Contemporary Nurse

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 107-118

  Jakobsson, Eva ^a   Bergh, Ingrid ^a   Öhlen, Joakim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Content; End of life; End of life care; Health care records; Palliative care; Turning point

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NURSE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; SWEDEN; TERMINAL CARE;

DATA COLLECTION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; NURSES; PHYSICIANS; SWEDEN; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 44449161028     PISSN: 10376178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/conu.2007.27.1.107     Document Type: Article

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