Coping issues among people living with advanced cancer

Seminars in Oncology Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 175-182

  Bahti, Tani ^a  

^a Support and Education in End of Life Issues   (United States)

Author keywords

Advocacy; Communication; Decision making; Dying; End of life; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; QUALITY OF LIFE; ONCOLOGY NURSING;

EID: 77955071263     PISSN: 07492081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soncn.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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