What Is Wrong With End‐of‐Life Care? Opinions of Bereaved Family Members

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• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Journal of The American Geriatrics Society

• Publication date

  1997-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1997.tb02933.xPMID 9361659
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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