The American public and the Terri Schiavo case

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 2580-2584

  Blendon, Robert J ^a   Benson, John M ^a   Herrmann, Melissa J ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b International Communications Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS FEEDING; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT RIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; ROLE PLAYING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; IN RE GUARDIANSHIP OF SCHIAVO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; POLITICS; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION; RIGHT TO DIE; THIRD-PARTY CONSENT; UNITED STATES; VALUE OF LIFE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 28944455595     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.165.22.2580     Document Type: Article

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