Survey of emergency medical services professionals' experience with advance directives and medical orders for life-sustaining treatment

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2383-2384

  Sam, Stanley ^a,b   Pekmezaris, Renee ^b,c,d,e   Nouryan, Christian N ^b   Tan, Richard ^b   Conrardy, Anthony ^b   Ward, Mary Frances ^b   Schwalberg, Alan ^b   Vij, Brinder ^b   Silverman, Harold ^b   Guzik, Howard J ^a,b   Lesser, Martin L ^b   Wolf Klein, Gisele P ^b  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b North Shore LIJ Health System ^*  (United States)

^c FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LETTER; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ORDER; RESUSCITATION;

ADULT; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84055189399     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03680.x     Document Type: Letter

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