Ethnicity, race, and advance directives in an inpatient palliative care consultation service

Palliative and Supportive Care

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-11

  Zaide, Glenn B ^a   Pekmezaris, Renee ^a,b,c,d   Nouryan, Christian N ^a   Mir, Tanveer P ^a   Sison, Cristina P ^b   Liberman, Tara ^a   Lesser, Martin L ^a,b,c,d   Cooper, Lynda B ^a   Wolf Klein, Gisele P ^a,c,d  

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

^b FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

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

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance directive; DNI; DNR; End of life; Ethnicity; PCC; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873147127     PISSN: 14789515     EISSN: 14789523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1478951512000417     Document Type: Review

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