We describe the circumstances that led to the building up of a home care service for terminally ill cancer patients in a part of southern Switzerland. We describe the goals, the structure and the functioning of this service as it works in two areas. We give some results of a retrospective study on h
General practitioners caring for terminally ill patients resident in a hospice
β Scribed by I. Hermann; J. Denekens; B. Van den Eynden; P. Van Royen; H. Verrept; R. Maes
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 38 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0941-4355
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