Palliative care: The magnitude of the problem

Palliative Care: A Patient-Centered Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 7-34

  Koffman, Jonathan ^a   Harding, Richard ^a   Higginson, Irene ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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