The balancing point: Understanding uptake of advance directive forms in a rural Australian community

BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 358-365

  Sinclair, Craig ^a   Auret, Kirsten Anne ^a   Burgess, Ashlee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AUSTRALIA; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; LIVING WILL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOME; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RURAL POPULATION; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84892957411     PISSN: 2045435X     EISSN: 20454368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000256     Document Type: Article

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