Invisible suffering: Breathlessness in and beyond the clinic-a reply

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2015, Pages e29-

  Hutchinson, Ann ^a   Booth, Sara ^b   Currow, David ^c   Higginson, Irene ^d   Johnson, Miriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

CHRONIC REFRACTORY BREATHLESSNESS; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY WARD; EMOTION; GENETICIST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; LETTER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEURORADIOLOGIST; NURSE; PALLIATIVE CARE SPECIALIST; PATIENT CARE; PHARMACOLOGIST; PHYSIOLOGIST; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIST; RESPIRATORY THERAPIST; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOLOGIST;

DYSPNEA; HUMANS;

EID: 84939453174     PISSN: 22132600     EISSN: 22132619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(15)00232-5     Document Type: Letter

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