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Life review in end of life care: a practitioner’s perspective

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Life review in end of life care: a practitioner’s perspective. / Sas, Corina; Ren, Shuang; Coman, Alina et al.
CHI EA '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM, 2016. p. 2947-2953.

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Sas, C, Ren, S, Coman, A, Clinch, S & Davies, NAJ 2016, Life review in end of life care: a practitioner’s perspective. in CHI EA '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, pp. 2947-2953. https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892491

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Sas, C., Ren, S., Coman, A., Clinch, S., & Davies, N. A. J. (2016). Life review in end of life care: a practitioner’s perspective. In CHI EA '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2947-2953). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892491

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Sas C, Ren S, Coman A, Clinch S, Davies NAJ. Life review in end of life care: a practitioner’s perspective. In CHI EA '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM. 2016. p. 2947-2953 doi: 10.1145/2851581.2892491

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Sas, Corina ; Ren, Shuang ; Coman, Alina et al. / Life review in end of life care : a practitioner’s perspective. CHI EA '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York : ACM, 2016. pp. 2947-2953

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