Psychometric Analysis of an Advance Directive

Medical Care

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1057-1065

  Alpert, Hillel R ^a   Hoijtink, Herbert ^b   Fischer, Gary S ^c   Emanuel, Linda ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance directives; Attitude; Ethics, medical; Psychometrics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DECISION MAKING; DISABLED PERSON; DOCUMENTATION; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADULT; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISABLED PERSONS; DOCUMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0030265829     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199610000-00006     Document Type: Article

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