Quality of end-of-life care for non-cancer patients in a non-acute hospital

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 20, Issue 13-14, 2011, Pages 1834-1841

  Woo, Jean ^a   Lo, Raymond ^b   Cheng, Joanna Oy ^a   Wong, Florens ^a   Mak, Benise ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SHATIN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

End of life care; Non cancer patients; Nurses; Nursing; Quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958839607     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03673.x     Document Type: Article

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