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The importance of spirituality in medicine and its application to clinical practice.
D'Souza R.
Med J Aust. 2007 May 21;186(10):S57-9
Paper
 
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A review of spiritual assessment in health care practice.
Rumbold BD.
Med J Aust
. 2007 May 21;186(10):S60-2.
Paper
 
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Spirituality, religion and health: evidence and research directions.
Williams DR, Sternthal MJ. 
Med J Aust. 2007
May 21;186(10):S47-50.
Paper
 
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Culture, spirituality, religion and health: looking at the big picture.
Eckersley RM. 
Med J Aust.
2007 May 21;186(10):S54-6.
Paper
 
From spirituality to coping strategy: making sense of chronic illness.
Greenstreet W.
Br J Nurs. 2006 Sep 28-Oct 11;15(17):938-42.
Abstract
 
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Death, dying and informatics: misrepresenting religion on MedLine
del Pozo PR  Fins JJ
|BMC Medical Ethics 2005, 6:6 (1 July 2005)
Paper
 
he relationship between religion/spirituality and physical health, mental health, and pain in
a chronic pain population.

Elizabeth Rippentrop A, Altmaier EM,et al 
Pain. 2005 Jun 23;
Abstract
 
Challenges and changes in spirituality among doctors who become patients.
Klitzman RL, Daya S.
Soc Sci Med. 2005 Jun 4;
Abstract
 
Assessment of spirituality/religiosity in the context of health related quality of life.
Zwingmann C.
Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol.
2005 May;55(5):241-6.
Abstract
 
Assessing a patient's spiritual needs: a comprehensive instrument.
Galek K, Flannelly KJ, Vane A, et al
Holist Nurs Pract. 2005 Mar-Apr;19(2):62-9
Abstract
 
High risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection during the Hajj pilgrimage.
Wilder-Smith A, Foo W, Earnest A, Paton NI.  
Trop Med Int Health. 2005 Apr;10(4):336-9
Abstract
 
When patients choose faith over medicine: physician perspectives on religiously related
conflict in the medical encounter.
Curlin FA, Roach CJ, Gorawara-Bhat R, et al   

Arch Intern Med.
2005 Jan 10;165(1):88-91.
Abstract
 
Spirituality and medicine: idiot-proofing the discourse.
Berlinger N.  
J Med Philos. 2004 Dec;29(6):681-95.
Abstract
 
Can physicians' care be neutral regarding religion?
Hall DE, Curlin F.  

Acad Med.
2004 Jul;79(7):677-9.
Abstract

An integrative review of the concept of spirituality in the health sciences.
Chiu L, Emblen JD, Van Hofwegen L, Sawatzky R, Meyerhoff H. 
West J Nurs Res. 2004 Jun;26(4):405-28.
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