Expanding support for "Upstream" surrogate decision making in the hospital

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 377-379

  Schenker, Yael ^a   Barnato, Amber ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DECISION MAKING; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FALLING; FAMILY; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; LIVING WILL; MENTAL HEALTH; MYOPIA; NOTE; NURSING HOME; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURROGATE DECISION MAKING; VERY ELDERLY; WARD;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84897712519     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.13284     Document Type: Note

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