Choices about Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Hospital: When Do Physicians Talk with Patients?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 310, Issue 17, 1984, Pages 1089-1093

  Bedell, Susanna E ^a   Delbanco, Thomas L ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESUSCITATION; THERAPY;

EID: 0021270346     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198404263101706     Document Type: Article

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