A multi-institutional study of care given to patients dying in hospitals: Ethical and practice implications

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 2130-2136

  Faber Langendoen, Kathy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DYING; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MULTICENTER STUDY; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; TERMINAL CARE;

CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; INTENTION; MINNESOTA; MISSOURI; VENTILATORS;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; TERMINAL CARE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0029969087     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.156.18.2130     Document Type: Article

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