Health care professionals' responses to religious or spiritual statements by surrogate decision makers during goals-of-care discussions

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1662-1669

  Ernecoff, Natalie C ^a   Curlin, Farr A ^b,c   Buddadhumaruk, Praewpannarai ^a   White, Douglas B ^a  

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

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSTANT COMPARATIVE METHOD; CONVERSATION; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPATHY; EXPRESSED EMPATHY; FEMALE; GOALS OF CARE CONVERSATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MIRACLE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY; RELIGIOUS PRACTICE; SPIRITUAL CARE; SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY; UNITED STATES; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN RELATION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PROXY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL CARE; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROXY; RELIGION; SPIRITUALITY; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84943538710     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: 21686114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.4124     Document Type: Article

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