Advance Directive and End-of-Life Care Preferences Among Nursing Home Residents in Wuhan, China: A Cross-Sectional Study

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 751-756

  Ni, Ping ^a   Zhou, Jing ^a   Wang, Zhao Xi ^a   Nie, Rong ^a   Phillips, Jane ^b   Mao, Jing ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advance directive; Chinese; End of life care; Nursing home

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE ASSESSMENT; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CUMULATIVE ILLNESS RATING SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; RATING SCALE; TERMINAL CARE; VERY ELDERLY; LIVING WILL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; QUESTIONNAIRES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84927690340     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2014.06.006     Document Type: Article

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