End of life care: The importance of advance care planning

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 734-737

  Bloomer, Melissa ^a   Tan, Heather ^a   Lee, Susan ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging; Doctor patient relations; Palliative care and attitude to death

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AUSTRALIA; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; TERMINAL CARE;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGING; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AUSTRALIA; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 78650241594     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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