Ethnicity and Advance Care Directives

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 108-117

  Murphy, Sheila T ^a   Palmer, Joycelynne M ^a   Azen, Stanley ^a   Frank, Gelya ^a   Michel, Vicki ^a   Blackhall, Leslie J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; KOREA; LIVING WILL; LOS ANGELES COUNTY; NEGRO; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; LOS ANGELES COUNTY; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; KOREA; LOS ANGELES; MEXICAN AMERICANS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0030158535     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.1996.tb01843.x     Document Type: Article

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