Respiratory practitioners' experience of end-of-life discussions in COPD

British Journal of Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 1164-1169

  Crawford, Anne ^a  

^a NHS Waltham Forest ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

COPD; Emotion; End of life discussion; Open awareness; Qualitative methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958485013     PISSN: 09660461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/bjon.2010.19.18.79049     Document Type: Article

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