A complex regional intervention to implement advance care planning in one town's nursing homes: Protocol of a controlled inter-regional study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  In Der Schmitten, Jürgen ^a   Rothärmel, Sonja ^b   Mellert, Christine ^a   Rixen, Stephan ^c   Hammes, Bernard J ^d   Briggs, Linda ^d   Wegscheider, Karl ^e   Marckmann, Georg ^f  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d Gunderson Lutheran Medical Foundation   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CUSTODY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING HOME; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROXY;

EID: 78751646492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-14     Document Type: Article

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