Use of Inpatient Palliative Care Services in Patients With Advanced Cancer Receiving Critical Care Therapies
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1540-1405,1540-1413
DOI: 10.6004/jnccn.2018.7039