General practitioners’ perceptions of the barriers and solutions to good-quality palliative care in dementia

Dementia

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 79-95

  Carter, Gillian ^a   van der Steen, Jenny T ^b   Galway, Karen ^a   Brazil, Kevin ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dementia; family carers; general practitioners; palliative care; perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008262619     PISSN: 14713012     EISSN: 17412684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471301215581227     Document Type: Article

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