From advance directives to advance care planning: Current legal status, ethical rationales and a new research agenda

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 563-566

  Jordens, Christopher ^a   Little, M ^a   Kerridge, I ^a   McPhee, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advance care planning; Advance directives; Case report; Decision making; Terminal care

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT FORMATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LEGAL ASPECT; LIVING WILL; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVING WILLS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY;

EID: 24744470039     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2005.00915.x     Document Type: Review

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