End-of-life issues for aboriginal patients: A literature review

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1459-1465

  Kelly, Len ^a   Minty, Alana ^a  

^a Box 489 ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DYING; FAMILY COUNSELING; GRIEF; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; REVIEW; TERMINAL CARE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; FAMILY RELATION; HUMAN RELATION; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY RELATIONS; GRIEF; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TERMINAL CARE; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 35748966157     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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