Interviewing people with terminal illness: practical and ethical issues.
The material gathered can provide valuable insight but interviewing those in the latter stages of their lives poses a number of difficult issues for nurse researchers. Alison Chapple's article explores some of the dilemmas involved and explains how one researcher sought to overcome them.
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Alison
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Department of Primary Health Care, Oxford University, UK.
D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000941:ethics; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000941:ethics / Q000379:methods*; D018579:Patient Selection / Q000941:ethics; D019452:Terminally Ill