The key role of palliative care in response to the COVID-19 tsunami of suffering

Lukas Radbruch; Felicia Marie Knaul; Liliana de Lima; Cornelis de Joncheere; Afsan Bhadelia

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30964-8

The key role of palliative care in response to the COVID-19 tsunami of suffering

Lukas Radbruch, Felicia Marie Knaul, Liliana de Lima, Cornelis de Joncheere, Afsan Bhadelia

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Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1467-1469
Number of pages	3
Journal	The Lancet
Volume	395
Issue number	10235
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30964-8
State	Published - May 9 2020

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