Nursing Home Residents’ Preferences for Life-Sustaining Treatments

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 274, Issue 22, 1995, Pages 1775-1779

  O’brien, Linda A ^a   Grisso, Jeane Ann ^a   Maislin, Greg ^a   Lapann, Karin ^a   Krotki, Karol P ^a   Greco, Peter J ^a   Siegert, Elisabeth A ^a   Evans, Lois K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; GERIATRIC CARE; MICROCLIMATE; NURSING HOME; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; TERMINAL CARE; TUBE FEEDING;

EID: 0028842517     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1995.03530220041030     Document Type: Article

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