What should be the goal of advance care planning?

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1093-1094

  Schenker, Yael ^a   White, Douglas B ^a   Arnold, Robert M ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; LIVING WILL; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL CARE;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; HUMANS; PATIENT PREFERENCE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84904098007     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.1887     Document Type: Note

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