Nurses' preferred end-of-life treatment choices in five countries

International Nursing Review

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 313-319

  Coffey, A ^a   Mccarthy, G ^a   Weathers, E ^a   Friedman, M I ^d   Gallo, K ^d   Ehrenfeld, M ^f   Itzhaki, M ^f   Chan, S ^g   Li, W H C ^g   Poletti, P ^h   Zanotti, R ⁱ   Molloy, D W ^b   Mcglade, C ^c   Fitzpatrick, J J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b St Finbarr's Hospital   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d Case Western Reserve University ^*  (United States)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^h CEREF Centre for Research and Continuing Education   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clinical decision making; End of life care; Nursing

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NURSING; PATIENT PREFERENCE; TERMINAL CARE; VERY ELDERLY;

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; END-OF-LIFE CARE; NURSING;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAREGIVERS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; NURSING; PATIENT PREFERENCE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84882576995     PISSN: 00208132     EISSN: 14667657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/inr.12024     Document Type: Article

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