Specialist palliative care in dementia
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Palliative care in dementia
Objectives: To analyze the current literature on the various aspects of palliative care in advanced
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0959-8138,1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.330.7482.57