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- Title
Factors Considered Important at the End of Life by Patients, Family, Physicians, and Other Care Providers.
- Authors
Steinhauser, Karen E.; Christakis, Nicholas A.; Clipp, Elizabeth C.; McNeilly, Maya; McIntyre, Lauren; Tulsky, James A.
- Abstract
Presents a study to determine the factors considered important by patients, families, and health care practitioners at the end of life. Attributes consistently rated as being important, including pain management, preparation for death, and others; Variations in attitudes regarding life-sustaining treatments; Factors considered by physicians as being less important, including funeral arrangements; Importance of accounting for diverse perceptions of quality in terminal care.
- Subjects
TERMINAL care; PATIENTS; TERMINALLY ill; DEATH; ATTITUDE (Psychology); CARING
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2000, Vol 284, Issue 19, p2476
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.284.19.2476