Bereaved cancer carers’ experience of and preference for palliative care
✍ Scribed by Natasha Sekelja; Phyllis N. Butow; Martin H. N. Tattersall
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 156 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0941-4355
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