Can goals of care be used to predict intervention preferences in an advance directive?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 157, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 801-807

  Fischer, Gary S ^a   Alpert, Hittel R ^b   Stoeckle, John D ^c   Emanuel, Linda L ^b,c  

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

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMA; DEMENTIA; LIVING WILL; MAJOR SURGERY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MINOR SURGERY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESUSCITATION; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE;

EID: 0030938982     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.157.7.801     Document Type: Article

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