Validation of the health care surrogate preferences scale

Social Work

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 432-439

  Buckey, Julia W ^a   Abell, Neil ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making scale; End of life decisions; Health care decision making; Health care proxy; Health care surrogate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CUSTODY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; PROXY; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4043171339     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/49.3.432     Document Type: Article

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