End-of-life decisions and old-age mortality: A cross-country analysis [9]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1951-1953

  Janssen, Fanny ^a   Van Der Heide, Agnes ^a   Kunst, Anton E ^a   Mackenbach, Johan P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BELGIUM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; LETTER; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREVALENCE; SWEDEN; SWITZERLAND; TERMINAL CARE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION MAKING; EUROPE; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 33845507575     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2006.00955.x     Document Type: Letter

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