Access to palliative care services in hospital: a matter of being in the right hospital. Hospital charts study in a Canadian city.

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Published in Palliat Med on June 16, 2011

Authors

Joachim Cohen1, Donna M Wilson, Amy Thurston, Rod MacLeod, Luc Deliens

Author Affiliations

1: Ghent University & Vrije Universiteit Brussel, End-of-Life Care Research Group, Brussels, Belgium. jcohen@vub.ac.be

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