What's race got to do with it?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 33, 2009, Pages 5496-5498

  Rhodes, Ramona ^a   Teno, Joan M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; CASE REPORT; DYSPNEA; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACISM; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ETHNOLOGY; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTENSIVE CARE; LIVING WILL; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; STANDARD;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 73949157246     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2009.24.2206     Document Type: Editorial

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