Improving the Quality of Palliative Care Through National and Regional Collaboration Efforts.

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Published in Cancer Control on October 01, 2015

Authors

Arif H Kamal1, Krista L Harrison, Marie Bakitas, J Nicholas Dionne-Odom, Lisa Zubkoff, Imatullah Akyar, Steven Z Pantilat, David L O'Riordan, Ashley R Bragg, Kara E Bischoff, Janet Bull

Author Affiliations

1: Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC. arif.kamal@duke.edu.

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