Emergency medicine physicians' perspectives of providing palliative care in an emergency department

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1333-1338

  Stone, Susan C ^a   Mohanty, Sarita ^b   Grudzen, Corita R ^c   Shoenberger, Jan ^d   Asch, Steve ^e   Kubricek, Katrina ^f   Lorenz, Karl A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TERMINAL CARE;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COMMUNICATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOS ANGELES; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 83455170708     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: 15577740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2011.0106     Document Type: Article

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