Factors affecting life-sustaining treatment decisions by health care surrogates and proxies: Assessing benefits and barriers

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 386-401

  Buckey, Julia W ^a   Abell, Neil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

HBM (Health Belief Model); Health care decision making; Health care proxy; Health care surrogate; Life sustaining treatment decisions

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CUSTODY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROXY; QUESTIONNAIRES; THIRD-PARTY CONSENT; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 68849096857     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: 1541034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00981380802606680     Document Type: Article

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