Attitudes of consultation-liaison psychiatrists toward physician- assisted death practices

Psychosomatics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 459-471

  Roberts, Laura Weiss ^a   Muskin, Philip R ^b   Warner, Teddy D ^b   McCarty, Teresita ^b   Roberts, Brian B ^b   Fidler, Donald C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSULTATION; DEATH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LIAISON PSYCHIATRY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; SUICIDE;

EID: 0030885896     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-3182(97)71423-3     Document Type: Article

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