Withdrawal of nutritional support: A family’s choice

Gastroenterology Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-28

  Kowalski, Susan ^a  

^a Water Resources Management Program and Department of Geoscience   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION; ARTICLE; BENEFICENCE; CASE REPORT; COMA; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DECISION MAKING; ENTERIC FEEDING; FAMILY; GRIEF; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; NURSE ATTITUDE; PASSIVE EUTHANASIA; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

AGED; BENEFICENCE; COMA; DECISION MAKING; ENTERAL NUTRITION; ETHICS, NURSING; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; FAMILY; GRIEF; HUMANS; MALE; NURSE'S ROLE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0029689035     PISSN: 1042895X     EISSN: 15389766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001610-199601000-00006     Document Type: Article

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