Advance Directives: Ambulatory Patients' Knowledge and Perspectives

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 119, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Freer, Jack P ^a   Eubanks, Michael ^a   Parker, Brandon ^a   Hershey, Charles O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance directives; Ambulatory care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LIVING WILL; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AMBULATORY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 37849185745     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2006.02.028     Document Type: Article

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