Palliative care services.

Dimens Crit Care Nurs

Critical Care Service, Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, 1111 E. McDowell Road #118, Phoenix, AZ 85006, USA.

Published: April 2003

This article presents a program developed at one facility to help provide palliative care services to patients in the intensive care units.

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