Advance care planning and advance directives: Time for action

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 435-436

  Vinen, J ^a  

^a ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; AWARENESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEATH; DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; LAW; LIVING WILL; MEDICAL CARE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036042568     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-5994.2002.00292.x     Document Type: Editorial

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