Racial and state differences in the designation of advance directives in nursing home residents

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1346-1352

  Kiely, Dan K ^a   Mitchell, Susan L ^a   Marlow, Aimee ^a   Murphy, Katharine M ^a   Morris, John N ^a  

^a RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance directives; DNR; Living wills; Race; Surrogate decision maker

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MALE; NURSING HOME; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; CALIFORNIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASSACHUSETTS; NEW YORK; NURSING HOMES; OHIO;

EID: 0034748757     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2001.49263.x     Document Type: Article

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