Factors Influencing Australian General Practitioners' Clinical Decisions Regarding Advance Care Planning: A Factorial Survey

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 718-727.e2

  Sinclair, Craig ^a   Gates, Kiri ^b   Evans, Sharon ^a   Auret, Kirsten Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Advance care planning; factorial survey; general practitioner; palliative; prognosis; vignette

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIAN; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY RISK; PATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AUSTRALIA; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RISK;

EID: 84954290347     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.11.014     Document Type: Article

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