Do-not-resuscitate orders - Should the patient be informed?

Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 241, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 421-425

  Lofmark R ^a   Nilstun, T ^b  

^a Länssjukhuset ^*  (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

communication; ethics; nurses; patients; physicians; resuscitation orders

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; PATIENT RIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 0030972255     PISSN: 09546820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2796.1997.138144000.x     Document Type: Article

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