Does it make clinical sense to equate terminally ill patients who require life-sustaining interventions with those who do not?

JAMA

Volumn 277, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 1705-1708

  Alpers, Ann ^a,b   Lo, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COURT; EUTHANASIA; MENTAL CAPACITY; MICROCLIMATE; PATIENT RIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE;

EID: 0030920063     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.277.21.1705     Document Type: Article

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