Attitudes toward advance directives and advance directive completion rates

Orthopaedic Nursing

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-127

  Salmond, Susan W ^a   David, Estrella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELF-DETERMINATION ACT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEW JERSEY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELF-DETERMINATION ACT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 20644456675     PISSN: 07446020     EISSN: 1542538X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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