Patient refusal of care in the out-of-hospital setting

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 948-951

  Adams, James ^a   Verdile, Vince ^b   Arnold, Robert ^c   Ayres Jr , R Jack ^d   Kosowsky, Joshua ^e  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency medical services; EMS; ethics; out of hospital emergency care; refusal of care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL;

EID: 0029795195     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1996.tb03325.x     Document Type: Article

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