Emotional comfort: the patient's perspective of a therapeutic context

Background: Comfort is a word that is frequently used to describe both physical and emotional aspects of the hospital experience. A number of definitions exist in the literature and there is a lack of clarity in understanding this concept.Objectives: This paper describes the therapeutic context of e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Williams, Anne, Irurita, Vera
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier Science 2006
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43512