Diversity in Defining End of Life Care: An Obstacle or the Way Forward?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Gysels, Marjolein ^a,b,c   Evans, Natalie ^d   Meñaca, Arantza ^c   Higginson, Irene J ^b   Harding, Richard ^b   Pool, Robert ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUROPE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE CONCEPTS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPAIN; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED KINGDOM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CULTURE; EUROPE; EXPERT TESTIMONY; HUMANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84879751218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068002     Document Type: Article

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