TitleDescribing death in America [electronic resource] : what we need to know / June R. Lunney ... [et al.], editors ; National Cancer Policy Board, Institute of Medicine, and Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council
Imprint Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2003
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Descript xii, 109 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

CONTENT

1. Introduction and overview -- 2. Key data elements pertaining to the end of life -- 3. Currently available datasets -- 4. Methodological issues in the collection and use of data about dying -- 5. Conclusions and recommendations


SUBJECT

  1. Terminal care -- United States
  2. Cancer -- Palliative treatment -- United States
  3. Statistics.
  4. Terminal Care -- United States
  5. Data Collection -- United States
  6. Mortality -- United States
  7. Quality Assurance
  8. Health Care -- United States
  9. Quality of Life -- United States
  10. Terminally Ill -- psychology -- United States
  11. Electronic books.