Minority populations and advance directives: Insights from a focus group methodology

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 58-71

  Hauser, Joshua M ^a   Kleefield, Sharon F ^a   Brennan, Troyen A ^a   Fischbach, Ruth L ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIVING WILL; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; RESEARCH; TRUST; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; RESEARCH; TRUST; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0031433977     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180100007611     Document Type: Article

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