Therapeutic conflicts in emergency department patients with multimorbidity: A cross-sectional study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Markun, Stefan ^a   Holzer, Barbara M ^a,b   Rodak, Roksana ^a   Kaplan, Vladimir ^a,b   Wagner, Claudia C ^a   Battegay, Edouard ^a,b   Zimmerli, Lukas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VERY ELDERLY; WARD; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907978683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110309     Document Type: Article

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