The schedule of attitudes toward hastened death: Measuring desire for death in terminally III cancer patients

Cancer

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2868-2875

  Rosenfeld, Barry ^a   Breitbart, William ^b   Galietta, Michele ^b   Kaim, Monique ^c   Funesti Esch, Julie ^b   Pessin, Hayley ^b   Nelson, Christian J ^a   Brescia, Robert ^d  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c Terrence Cardinal Cooke Hlth C ^*  (United States)

^d Calvary Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Desire for death; Euthanasia; Palliative care; Physician assisted suicide; Terminal illness

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EUTHANASIA; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; RELIGION; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TERMINAL DISEASE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WELLBEING;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 0034660238     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(20000615)88:12<2868::AID-CNCR30>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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