Aid in dying: Guidance for an emerging end-of-life practice

Chest

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 218-224

  Tucker, Kathryn L ^a,b  

^a Legal Affairs   (United States)

^b Loyola Law School Los Angeles   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; DEATH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYING; EMPOWERMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL HEALTH; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

EID: 84863793798     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.12-0046     Document Type: Article

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