Lack of ethnic differences in end-of-life care in the veterans health administration

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 277-283

  Fischer, Stacy M ^a   Kutner, Jean S ^a   Sauaia, Angela ^a   Kramer, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance directives; DNR; End of life care; Ethnicity; Health disparities; Pain

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOCUMENTATION; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; COLORADO; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DOCUMENTATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PAIN; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 34548186199     PISSN: 10499091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049909107302295     Document Type: Review

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