Interventions to encourage discussion of end-of-life preferences between members of the general population and the people closest to them - a systematic literature review.

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Published in BMC Palliat Care on November 04, 2013

Authors

Katharine Abba1, Paula Byrne, Siobhan Horton, Mari Lloyd-Williams

Author Affiliations

1: University of Liverpool, Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group (APSCSG), Waterhouse Building, Block B 1st Floor, 1-5 Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3GL, UK. k.abba@liverpool.ac.uk.

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