Interventions to promote the use of advance directives: An overview of systematic reviews

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 10-20

  Tamayo Velázquez, Maria Isabel ^a   Simón Lorda, Pablo ^a   Villegas Portero, Román ^b   Higueras Callejón, Camila ^a   García Gutiérrez, José Francisco ^a   Martínez Pecino, Flora ^c   Barrio Cantalejo, Inés María ^d  

^a ANDALUSIAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^c Educational Unity of Family and Community Medicine of Seville   (Spain)

^d Knowledge Management Coordinator ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Advance directives; Education; Intervention study; Living will; Review

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYING; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVING WILL; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROFESSIONAL ROLE;

EID: 77953539365     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2009.09.027     Document Type: Article

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