Association between clinician factors and a patient's wish to hasten death: Terminally ill cancer patients and their doctors

Psychosomatics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 311-318

  Kelly, Brian J ^a   Burnett, Paul C ^b   Pelusi, Dan ^b   Badger, Shirlene J ^b   Varghese, Francis T ^b   Robertson, Marguerite M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; CANCER PATIENT; DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 3042635541     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.45.4.311     Document Type: Article

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