Spiritual and religious involvement relate to end-of-life decision-making in patients undergoing coronary bypass graft surgery

International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 113-132

  Ai, Amy L ^a,d   Park, Crystal L ^b   Shearer, Marshall ^c  

^a University of Washington Health Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardia diseases; Coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG); End of life (EOLP); Religion; Reverence in secular context; Spirituality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RELIGION; SPIRITUAL CARE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 50649109017     PISSN: 00912174     EISSN: 15413527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/PM.38.1.k     Document Type: Article

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