Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions: Health Care Social Workers' Attitudes and Their Correlates

Journal of Gerontological Social Work

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 83-97

  Werner, Perla ^a   Carmel, Sara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Decision making; End of life; Interdisciplinary teams; Life sustaining treatment; Social workers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937344031     PISSN: 01634372     EISSN: 15404048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J083v34n04_07     Document Type: Article

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