Do patients' ethnic and social factors influence the use of do-not-resuscitate orders?

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 132-139

  Thompson, Betsy L ^a,b   Lawson, Dawn ^a   Croughan Minihane, Mary ^a   Cooke, Molly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; Cross cultural Medicine; Ethnicity; Medical Ethics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; TIME; UNITED STATES;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOLISM; ASIAN AMERICANS; DECISION MAKING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAN FRANCISCO; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033404379     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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