High technology medical interventions: What do older people want?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1409-1411

  Mead, Gillian E ^a   Pendleton, Neil ^a   Pendleton, Deborah E ^a   Horan, Michael A ^a   Bent, Nuala ^b   Rabbit, Patrick ^b  

^a HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; TECHNOLOGY; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; QUESTIONNAIRES; TECHNOLOGY; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0031280274     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1997.tb02948.x     Document Type: Letter

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