Talking with patients about dying

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 367, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 1651-1652

  Smith, Thomas J ^a   Longo, Dan L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEATH; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYING; EDITORIAL; EXPECTATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HOPE; HOSPICE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL INFORMATION; METASTASIS; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PLANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TERMINAL DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867836502     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1211160     Document Type: Editorial

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