Choices for patients without a choice interviews with patients who received a left ventricular assist device as destination therapy

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 368-373

  Ottenberg, Abigale L ^a   Cook, Katlyn E ^a,b   Topazian, Rachel J ^b   Mueller, Luke A ^b   Mueller, Paul S ^a,b   Swetz, Keith M ^b  

^a Program in Professionalism and Ethics   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance care planning; Decision making; Ethics; Medical; Shared

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNITED STATES; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84903598175     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.113.000660     Document Type: Article

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