Decisions to terminate resuscitation

Resuscitation

Volumn 39, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 7-13

  De Vos, Rien ^a   Oosterom, Liane ^a   Koster, Rudolph W ^a   De Haan, Rob J ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Decision making; Resuscitation; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

BLOOD CIRCULATION; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESUSCITATION; RESUSCITATION ORDERS;

EID: 0032437182     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9572(98)00098-7     Document Type: Article

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