Impact of delirium and recall on the level of distress in patients with advanced cancer and their family caregivers
โ Scribed by Eduardo Bruera; Shirley H. Bush; Jie Willey; Timotheos Paraskevopoulos; Zhijun Li; J. Lynn Palmer; Marlene Z. Cohen; Debra Sivesind; Ahmed Elsayem
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 137 KB
- Volume
- 115
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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