Would they follow what has been laid down? Cancer patients' and healthy controls' views on adherence to advance directives compared to medical staff

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 297-305

  Sahm, Stephan ^a,b   Will, R ^a   Hommel, G ^c  

^a DEUTSCHE KLINIK FÜR DIAGNOSTIK   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adherence; Advance directives; Cancer patients; Decision making; End of life; Ethics; Healthy persons; Medical staff; Vignette study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESUSCITATION;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NURSING STAFF; PATIENTS; PHYSICIANS; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 29244482604     PISSN: 13867423     EISSN: 15728633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-005-2108-8     Document Type: Article

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