Ethics and Communication in Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 318, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 43-46

  Tomlinson, Tom ^a   Brody, Howard ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EUTHANASIA; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL STAFF; PASSIVE EUTHANASIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNICATION; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUTHANASIA; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; POLICY MAKING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0024280327     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198801073180109     Document Type: Editorial

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