Quality end-of-life care. Patients' perspectives

JAMA

Volumn 281, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 163-168

  Singer, Peter A ^a,b   Martin, Douglas K ^b   Kelner, Merrijoy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b at the University of Toronto Wagner is also a faculty member of the Canadian Medical Associations' Physician Management Institute   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIALYSIS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIVING WILL; LONG TERM CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033550496     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.281.2.163     Document Type: Article

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