Procedure-specific do-not-resuscitate orders: Effect on communication of treatment limitations

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 793-797

  Heffner, John E ^a,b   Barbieri, Celia ^a   Casey, Kathy ^a  

^a ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION;

CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; COMPREHENSION; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FORMS; INSTITUTIONAL POLICIES; ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER (PHOENIX, AZ);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECORDS; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0029871576     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.156.7.793     Document Type: Article

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