terminal illness

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A previous history of prolonged sepsis related to the surgical scar confused the diagnosis of her acute terminalillness.
Any attendee whose occupation involved working with traumatic loss, terminalillness, or bereavement was eligible to participate in the study.
Finally, we discuss the implications of translating expressed goals and uncertainties into a patient-centered care plan for terminalillness.
There are two persons with the same level of unhappiness, both of whom have a painful terminalillness.
We selected original articles that focused on the preferences of patients with chronic, severe, or terminalillness.
Even in terminalillness there are ways in which a person's functional abilities can be facilitated or impeded.
However, little research has investigated whether those actually facing lifethreatening or terminalillness experience changes in their spiritual lives.
The most common circumstances described related to the diagnosis of a terminalillness and the diagnosis of lung cancer.
The often inevitable loss of physical dignity which accompanies terminalillness was redressed by study participants in several ways.
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