Strategies for handling ethical problems in end of life care: obstacles and possibilities

Background:In end of life care, ethical problems often come to the fore. Little research is performed on ways or strategies for handling those problems and even less on obstacles to and possibilities of using such strategies. A previous study illuminated stroke team members’ experiences of ethical p...

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Authors: Rejnö, Åsa (Author) ; Berg, Linda (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2015
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 22, Issue: 7, Pages: 778-789
Further subjects:B possibilities
B Ethical problems
B Content Analysis
B Strategies
B obstacles
B stroke team members
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