Choices of seriously ill patients about cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Correlates and outcomes

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 128-137

  Phillips, Russell S ^a   Wenger, Neil S ^b   Teno, Joan ^c   Oye, Robert K ^b   Youngner, Stuart ^d   Califf, Robert ^e   Layde, Peter ^f   Desbiens, Norman ^f   Connors Jr , Alfred F ^g   Lynn, Joanne ^c  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^g METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 0030029841     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(97)89450-8     Document Type: Article

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