Palliative or hospice care? Understanding the similarities and differences

Rehabilitation Nursing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 60-64

  Batchelor, Nancy Henne ^a  

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Author keywords

Hospice care; Nursing role; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950215736     PISSN: 02784807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2048-7940.2010.tb00032.x     Document Type: Article

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