Modal preferences predict elderly patients' life-sustaining treatment choices as well as patients' chosen surrogates do

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 271-280

  Smucker, William D ^a   Houts, Renate M ^b   Danks, Joseph H ^c   Ditto, Peter H ^d   Fagerlin, Angela ^c   Coppola, Kristen M ^e  

^a SUMMA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuarial; Advance directives; Decision making; Elderly; Substituted judgment; Surrogates

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTION;

EID: 0033927669     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X0002000303     Document Type: Article

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