Patient autonomy and undertreatment of critical disease

Hospital Practice

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 177-183

  Leeman, Cavin P ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BREAST TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT RIGHT; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERUS CARCINOMA;

EID: 0032519730     PISSN: 87502836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21548331.1998.11443643     Document Type: Review

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