Effect of a disease-specific planning intervention on surrogate understanding of patient goals for future medical treatment

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1233-1240

  Kirchhoff, Karin T ^a   Hammes, Bernard J ^c   Kehl, Karen A ^a   Briggs, Linda A ^c   Brown, Roger L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

advance care planning; communication; intervention studies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; KAPPA STATISTICS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIGION; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADULT; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GOALS; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PROXY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 77954325390     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.02760.x     Document Type: Article

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