Determinants in Canadian Health Care Workers of the Decision to Withdraw Life Support From the Critically Ill

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 273, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 703-708

  Cook, Deborah J ^a   Guyatt, Gordon H ^a   Jaeschke, Roman ^a   Reeve, Joan ^a   Molloy, D Willie ^a   Willan, Andrew ^b   Streiner, David L ^b   King, Derek ^b   Spanier, Allen ^c  

^a Departments of Medicine   (United States)

^b Departments of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CANADA; COGNITION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTENSIVE CARE; LEGAL ASPECT; LIVING WILL; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0028939664     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1995.03520330033033     Document Type: Article

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