A Systematic Review in Support of the National Consensus Project Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, Fourth Edition.

@article{Ahluwalia2018ASR,
  title={A Systematic Review in Support of the National Consensus Project Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, Fourth Edition.},
  author={Sangeeta C. Ahluwalia and Christine Chen and Laura B. Raaen and Aneesa Motala and Anne M. Walling and Margaret Chamberlin and Claire E. O’Hanlon and Jody Larkin and Karl A Lorenz and Olamigoke Akinniranye and Susanne Hempel},
  journal={Journal of pain and symptom management},
  year={2018},
  volume={56 6},
  pages={
          831-870
        }
}
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