Thoughts of patients with advanced heart failure on dying

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 564-572

  Willems, D L ^a   Hak, A ^b   Visser, F ^c   Van der Wal, G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Advanced heart failure; End of life; Patient views; Quality of dying

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYING; EUTHANASIA; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SUICIDE; THINKING;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 4544243178     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269216304pm919oa     Document Type: Article

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