Surviving within the perimeter : how palliative care patients make meaning of living while dying of terminal cancer

The purpose of this study was to discover how palliative cancer patients experience living while they are dying. A naturalistic approach, interpretive description, was used to identify and interpret themes. Data collection consisted of unstructured interviews with 6 patients with a prognosis of l...

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Main Author: Bodell, Kathleen V.
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/9095