Private attending physician status and the withdrawal of life-sustaining interventions in a medical intensive care unit population

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 968-975

  Kollef, Marin H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

advance directives; critical illness; dialysis; health insurance; intensive care; life support; mechanical ventilation; medical ethics; vasopressors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIALYSIS; DYING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVING WILL; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; RESUSCITATION;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

AGED; APACHE; COHORT STUDIES; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0029891006     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199606000-00016     Document Type: Article

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