Patient values and preferences for end-of-life treatments: Are values better predictors than a living will?

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 362-368

  Winter, Laraine ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; LIVING WILL; LONGEVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TELEPHONE; TERMINAL CARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVING WILLS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PHILADELPHIA; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84875851938     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: 15577740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2012.0303     Document Type: Article

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