Strachan, Jenny; Clark, Lucy
Many patients, family and staff use the word ‘traumatic’ when discussing end-of-life experiences. As with many terms considered in this series, ‘trauma’ and ‘traumatised’ mean something more specific in a clinical sense than they do in common usage. The authors consider what it means to be traumatised, and how the condition might be recognised and managed in a palliative care setting?
Fulltext available in European Journal of Palliative Care
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