Illness Trajectories and Palliative Care

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2005 Apr 30

PMID 15860828

Citations 408

Authors

Scott A Murray

Marilyn Kendall

Kirsty Boyd

Aziz Sheikh

Affiliations

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