Preferences of Physicians and Their Patients for End-of-Life Care
- 1 June 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Vol. 12 (6) , 346-351
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1497.1997.00058.x
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Both physicians and patients view advance directives as important, yet discussions occur infrequently. We assessed differences and correlations between physicians' and their patients'...Keywords
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