Care for chinese families with patients facing impending death: Nurses' perspectives

Death, Dying and Bereavement: A Hong Kong Chinese Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 225-239

  Chow, Amy Yin Man ^a   Lo, Jess Shuk Fun ^b   Li, Wendy Wai Yin ^c   Lai, Carmen Yuek Yan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HOSPITAL AUTHORITY   (Hong Kong)

^c Bereavement Support Group   (Hong Kong)

^d Acute Hospital   (Hong Kong)

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