Clergy Views on a Good Versus a Poor Death: Ministry to the Terminally Ill

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1000-1007

  Lebaron, Virginia T ^a   Cooke, Amanda ^c   Resmini, Jonathan ^d   Garinther, Alexander ^e   Chow, Vinca ^f   Quiñones, Rebecca ^b   Noveroske, Sarah ^b   Baccari, Andrew ^g   Smith, Patrick T ^h   Peteet, John ^b   Balboni, Tracy A ^b   Balboni, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL   (United States)

^h Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLERGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNICITY; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; RACE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; UNITED STATES; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; INTERVIEW; PASTORAL CARE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONHOOD; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; STANDARDS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CLERGY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PASTORAL CARE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONHOOD; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84949570444     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: 15577740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2015.0176     Document Type: Article

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