Advance Care Planning is not about "Getting it Right"

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 475-481

  Barnard, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITALIZATION; LEGAL LIABILITY; LIVING WILL; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; TERMINAL CARE; ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EXISTENTIALISM; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; RELIGION; STANDARD;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVE ADHERENCE; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; EXISTENTIALISM; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SPIRITUALITY; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0036673423     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/109662102760269706     Document Type: Editorial

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