Differential Medical and Surgical House Staff Involvement in End-of-Life Decisions: A Retrospective Chart Review

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 110-117

  Kelley, Amy S ^a   Gold, Heather T ^a   Roach, Keith W ^a   Fins, Joseph J ^a  

^a Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

advance care planning; Communication; do not resuscitate order; medical and surgical graduate medical education; palliative care; withholding and withdrawing life sustaining treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SERVICE; MEDICAL STAFF; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; OUTPATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION MAKING; DISCLOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL; TERMINAL CARE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 33746473674     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2006.02.009     Document Type: Article

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