Clinician-patient interactions about requests for physician-assisted suicide: A patient and family view

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 162, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1257-1265

  Back, Anthony L ^a   Starks, Helene ^a   Hsu, Clarissa ^a,b   Gordon, Judith R ^a,b   Bharucha, Ashok ^c   Pearlman, Robert A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research   (United States)

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

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYING; EUTHANASIA; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0037054042     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.162.11.1257     Document Type: Article

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