Cancer patients' preferences for control at the end of life

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1618-1631

  Volker, Deborah L ^a   Wu, Hung Lan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MEIHO UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

cancer; death and dying; end of life issues; ethics moral perspectives; ethnicity; hermeneutics; illness and disease, life threatening terminal; palliative care; phenomenology; race

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; TERMINAL CARE; TEXAS;

EID: 82655171889     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732311415287     Document Type: Article

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