"That don't work for me": Patients' and family members' perspectives on palliative care and hospice in late-stage heart failure

Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 177-182

  Metzger, Maureen ^a   Norton, Sally A ^a   Quinn, Jill R ^a   Gramling, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

family members; heart failure; hospice; palliative care; patients; perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876231797     PISSN: 15222179     EISSN: 15390705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NJH.0b013e3182798390     Document Type: Article

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