Barriers and facilitators to end-of-life care communication for patients with COPD

Chest

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2188-2196

  Knauft, Elizabeth ^a   Nielsen, Elizabeth L ^a   Engelberg, Ruth A ^a   Patrick, Donald L ^b   Curtis, J Randall ^a,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Barriers; COPD; Death; Dying; End of life care; Palliative care; Physician patient communication

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL CARE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONG TERM CARE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; SURVIVAL; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCERTAINTY;

ADULT; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROBABILITY; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 21844468527     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.127.6.2188     Document Type: Article

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