Collusion in doctor-patient communication about imminent death: An ethnographic study

Western Journal of Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 247-253

  The, A M ^a   Hak, T ^a   Koeter G ^b   Wal, G V D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; TERMINAL DISEASE; TUMOR RECURRENCE; X RAY FILM;

CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RIGHT TO DIE; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 0035044737     PISSN: 00930415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ewjm.174.4.247     Document Type: Article

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