Do patients need to know they are terminally ill? No

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 346, Issue 7905, 2013, Pages

  Blackhall, Leslie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; ILLNESS TRAJECTORY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMFORT; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT SURVEY; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHICS; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NOTE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

DISCLOSURE; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TERMINALLY ILL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877630948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f2560     Document Type: Short Survey

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