Physicians' Attitudes about the Care of Patients in the Persistent Vegetative State: A National Survey

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 104-110

  Payne, Kirk ^a,b   Taylor, Robert M ^a,c   Stocking, Carol ^a,d   Sachs, Greg A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; ACUTE DISEASE; ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DONOR; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; ENTERIC FEEDING; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROLOGY; NURSING HOME; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNITED STATES;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ACUTE DISEASE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONSENSUS; ENTERAL NUTRITION; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUTHANASIA; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROLOGY; NURSING HOMES; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PHYSICIAN EXECUTIVES; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES; VALUE OF LIFE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0030585963     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-125-2-199607150-00004     Document Type: Review

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