End-of-life advance directive

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 372, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 667-670

  Tolle, Susan W ^a   Back, Anthony L ^b   Meier, Diane E ^c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE; CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; ERIBULIN; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; SPINE METASTASIS; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; LIVING WILL; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; ONCOLOGY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOLOGY;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PALLIATIVE MEDICINE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE;

EID: 84922690784     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMclde1411152     Document Type: Article

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