Public opinion on preferences and priorities for end-of-life care in sub-Saharan Africa: piloting a novel method of street surveying.

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Published in BMJ Support Palliat Care on December 13, 2011

Authors

Julia Downing1, Nancy Gikaara, Barbara Gomes, Barbara A Daveson, Irene J Higginson, Richard Harding, Project PRISMA

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.

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