Compliance with advance directives: Nursing's view

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 65-71

  Lark, Jude ^a   Gatti, Cheryl ^a  

^a Lark and Gatti Med Leg Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance directives; Legal

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTENSIVE CARE; LAW; LIVING WILL; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NURSE; NURSING; REVIEW;

EID: 0032697675     PISSN: 08879303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002727-199911000-00010     Document Type: Review

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