Perspectives on advance directives in Japanese society: A population-based questionnaire survey

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-9

  Akabayashi, Akira ^a,b   Slingsby, Brian Taylor ^b   Kai, Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JAPAN; LIFESPAN; LIVING WILL; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELATIVE; REVIEW; SPOUSE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 3042538277     PISSN: 14726939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-4-1     Document Type: Review

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