Pediatric palliative care.

نویسندگان

  • Bruce P Himelstein
  • Joanne M Hilden
  • Ann Morstad Boldt
  • David Weissman
چکیده

From the Pediatric Palliative Care Program, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (B.P.H., A.M.B.); the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology–Oncology (B.P.H., A.M.B.), and the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Neoplastic Diseases and Related Disorders (D.W.), Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; the Department of Pediatric Hematology– Oncology, Pediatric Palliative Care, Children’s Hospital at the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland (J.M.H.); and the Palliative Care Center, Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Milwaukee (D.W.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Himelstein at the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology–Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 9000 W. Wisconsin Ave., MS 792, Milwaukee, WI 53201, or at bhimelstein@ chw.org.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The New England journal of medicine

دوره 350 17  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004