Why don't emergency department patients have advance directives?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1054-1060

  Llovera, Ingrid ^a,b   Ward, Mary Frances ^a   Ryan, James G ^a   Lesser, Martin ^a   Sama, Andrew E ^a   Crough, Daniel ^a   Mansfield, Mary ^a   Lesser, Lenard I ^a  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Department of Emergency Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Advance directive; Emergency department

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION;

EID: 0032852258     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1999.tb01192.x     Document Type: Article

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