Families' and physicians' predictions of dialysis patients' preferences regarding life-sustaining treatments in Japan

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 122-130

  Miura, Yasuhiko ^a   Asai, Atsushi ^b   Matsushima, Masato ^b   Nagata, Shizuko ^b   Onishi, Motoki ^b   Shimbo, Takuro ^b   Hosoya, Tatsuo ^b   Fukuhara, Shunichi ^b  

^a Nomura Hospital   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Advance directives; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); Dialysis withdrawal; Medical ethics; Patient preferences; Substituted judgment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESUSCITATION;

ADULT; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; COMMUNICATION; CULTURE; DEMENTIA; FAMILY; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; JUDGMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEPHROLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS, CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TERMINAL CARE; THIRD-PARTY CONSENT;

EID: 29244464785     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2005.09.030     Document Type: Article

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