Attitudes Toward Life-Sustaining Treatment: The Role of Race/Ethnicity

Geriatric Nursing

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 341-349

  Ko, Eunjeong ^a   Cho, Sunhee ^b   Bonilla, Monica ^c  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Nursing   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; RACE; SOUTH KOREA; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866610277     PISSN: 01974572     EISSN: 15283984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2012.01.009     Document Type: Article

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