How should clinicians describe hospice to patients and families?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1923-1928

  Casarett, David J ^a,b   Crowley, Roxane L ^a   Hirschman, Karen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Institute on Aging   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; End of life; Hospice

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHICS; FAMILY COUNSELING; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; ADULT; AGED; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS;

EID: 16544382740     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2004.52520.x     Document Type: Article

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