Spiritual and religious interventions for adults in the terminal phase of disease

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Candy, Bridget ^a   Jones, Louise ^a   Speck, Peter ^b   Tookman, Adrian ^a   King, Michael ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDLINE; PSYCINFO; RELIGION; REVIEW; TERMINAL DISEASE;

EID: 70249083357     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007544     Document Type: Review

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