Factors Associated with Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders: Patients' Preferences, Prognoses, and Physicians' Judgments

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 284-293

  Hakim, Rosemarie B ^a   Teno, Joan M ^a   Harrell Jr , Frank E ^a   Knaus, William A ^a   Wenger, Neil ^a   Phillips, Russell S ^a   Layde, Peter ^a   Califf, Robert ^a   Connors Jr , Alfred F ^a   Lynn, Joanne ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION; STUDY TO UNDERSTAND PROGNOSES AND PREFERENCES FOR OUTCOMES AND RISKS OF TREATMENTS (SUPPORT); TIME;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; STUDY TO UNDERSTAND PROGNOSES AND PREFERENCES FOR OUTCOMES AND RISKS OF TREATMENTS (SUPPORT);

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PATIENTS; PHYSICIANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0000251207     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-125-4-199608150-00005     Document Type: Article

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