Strategies to promote the use of advance directives in a residency outpatient practice

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 657-663

  Sulmasy, Daniel P ^a   Song, Kathleen Y ^a   Marx, Eric S ^a   Mitchell, Jean M ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

advance directives; education; medical ethics; race; residents

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 0030473892     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02600156     Document Type: Article

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