Engaging patients, health care professionals, and community members to improve preoperative decision making for older adults facing high-risk surgery

JAMA Surgery

Volumn 151, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 938-945

  Steffens, Nicole M ^a,b   Tucholka, Jennifer L ^a   Nabozny, Michael J ^a   Schmick, Andrea E ^a   Brasel, Karen J ^c   Schwarze, Margaret L ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b DENVER PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CONVERSATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MALE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURGEON; SURGICAL RISK; ADVISORY COMMITTEE; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FAMILY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; AGED; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PATIENTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD;

EID: 84997541793     PISSN: 21686254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2016.1308     Document Type: Article

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