Life-sustaining treatment and assisted death choices in depressed older patients

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 153-161

  Blank, Karen ^a   Robison, Julie ^b   Doherty, Erin ^c   Prigerson, Holly ^d   Duffy, James ^a   Schwartz, Harold I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF LIVING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance directives; Decision making; Depression; End of life; Suicide, assisted

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEATH; DEPRESSION; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL DISEASE; RELIGION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDE; TERMINAL CARE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 0035095103     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2001.49036.x     Document Type: Article

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