Dartmouth Atlas: Putting End-of-life Care on the Map but Missing Psychosocial Detail

Overview

Journal J Support Oncol

Specialty Oncology

Date 2011 Oct 19

PMID 22005216

Citations 8

Authors

Holly G Prigerson

Paul K Maciejewski

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