Racial disparities in the outcomes of communication on medical care received near death

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 1533-1540

  Mack, Jennifer W ^a,b   Paulk, M Elizabeth ^d   Viswanath, Kasisomayajula ^a,c   Prigerson, Holly G ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AWARENESS; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; DEATH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESUSCITATION; TERMINAL DISEASE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAUCASIAN; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERMINAL CARE; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COMMUNICATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 77957687297     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.322     Document Type: Article

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