Advance Directives: The Key to a Good Death?

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 279-283

  Abele, Patricia ^a   Morley, John E ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMORELIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DRONABINOL; MEGESTROL; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

CONVERSATION; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PATIENT CARE; RESUSCITATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TERMINAL CARE; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MEDICARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MEDICARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84959298839     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2016.01.020     Document Type: Editorial

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