Attitudes toward life-sustaining interventions among ambulatory black and white patients

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 914-919

  Bayer, William ^a   Mallinger, Julie B ^a   Krishnan, Ashok ^b   Shields, Cleveland G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Aged; Attitude to death; Cross cultural comparison; Decision making; Life support care; Multivariate analysis

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; CUSTODY; DECISION MAKING; DISABLED PERSON; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RESUSCITATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DECISION MAKING; DISABLED PERSONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; LINEAR MODELS; LIVING WILLS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW YORK; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROXY; RESUSCITATION ORDERS;

EID: 36048977620     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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