Advance care planning: a qualitative study of dialysis patients and families.

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Published in Clin J Am Soc Nephrol on February 13, 2015

Authors

Sarah L Goff1, Nwamaka D Eneanya2, Rebecca Feinberg3, Michael J Germain4, Lisa Marr5, Joan Berzoff6, Lewis M Cohen3, Mark Unruh7

Author Affiliations

1: Divisions of General Medicine and Center for Quality of Care Research, and Sarah.goffmd@baystatehealth.org.
2: Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts;
3: Department of Psychiatry, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts;
4: Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine.
5: Divisions of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine and.
6: Smith College School for Social Work, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.
7: Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and.

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