Religious coping and use of intensive life-prolonging care near death in patients with advanced cancer

JAMA

Volumn 301, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1140-1147

  Phelps, Andrea C ^a,b   Maciejewski, Paul K ^a,c   Nilsson, Matthew ^a   Balboni, Tracy A ^a   Wright, Alexi A ^a   Paulk, M Elizabeth ^a   Trice, Elizabeth ^a   Schrag, Deborah ^a   Peteet, John R ^c   Block, Susan D ^c,d   Prigerson, Holly G ^a,c,e  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERVIEW; LIVING WILL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RELIGION; RELIGIOUS GROUP; RESUSCITATION; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASM; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; SPIRITUALITY; TERMINAL CARE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 62649155822     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2009.341     Document Type: Article

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