Impact of specialty on attitudes of Australian medical practitioners to end-of-life decisions

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 188, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 450-456

  Parker, Malcolm H ^a   Cartwright, Colleen M ^b   Williams, Gail M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AUSTRALIA; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EUTHANASIA; GERIATRIC CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; SEDATION; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TERMINAL CARE; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIANS; QUEENSLAND; QUESTIONNAIRES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 47049123786     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01714.x     Document Type: Article

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