Do unto others: Doctors' personal end-of-life resuscitation preferences and their attitudes toward advance directives

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Periyakoil, Vyjeyanthi S ^a,b   Neri, Eric ^a   Fong, Ann ^c   Kraemer, Helena ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; ORGAN DONOR; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; RESUSCITATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TERMINAL CARE; AGE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MEDICINE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGE FACTORS; AREA UNDER CURVE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; MEDICINE; PHYSICIANS; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84901600659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098246     Document Type: Article

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