Honouring the Age-Old Commitment to "the Patient's Good": The Promise - and Peril - Of Hospice

Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 153, Issue 17-18, 2003, Pages 392-397

  Loewy, Roberta Springer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Euthanasia; Geriatrics; Hospice

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EUTHANASIA; GERIATRIC CARE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT RIGHT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; AGED; ARTICLE; LEGAL ASPECT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; TERMINAL CARE;

AGED; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUTHANASIA; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1442323676     PISSN: 00435341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10354-003-0021-4     Document Type: Review

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