Will patients want hospice or palliative care if they do not know what it is?

Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-46

  Matsuyama, Robin K ^a   Balliet, Wendy ^b   Ingram, Kathleen ^b   Lyckholm, Laurie J ^a   Wilson Genderson, Maureen ^b   Smith, Thomas J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; disparities; hospice; palliative care

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651451110     PISSN: 15222179     EISSN: 15390705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NJH.0b013e3182020520     Document Type: Article

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