Do patients want physicians to inquire about their spiritual or religious beliefs if they become gravely ill?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 159, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 1803-1806

  Ehman, John W ^a   Ott, Barbara B ^b   Short, Thomas H ^b   Ciampa, Ralph C ^a   Hansen Flaschen, John ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SELF REPORT;

CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PENNSYLVANIA; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; RELIGIOUS APPROACH; SURVEY; TRUST; VALUES;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SOCIAL VALUES; SPIRITUALITY; TERMINAL CARE; TRUST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033598117     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.159.15.1803     Document Type: Article

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