Physician resource use and willingness to participate in assisted suicide

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 158, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 974-978

  Sulmasy, Daniel P ^a   Linas, Benjamin P ^a   Gold, Karen F ^a   Schulman, Kevin A ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; GROUP PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICIAN INCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ALTERNATIVES; ATLANTA; CHICAGO; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; COMPETENCE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; INCENTIVES; LOS ANGELES; NEW YORK CITY; PHILADELPHIA; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURVEY; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0032507785     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.158.9.974     Document Type: Article

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