Medical futility in end-of-life care: Report of the council on ethical and judicial affairs

JAMA

Volumn 281, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 937-941

  Plows, Charles W ^b   Tenery, Robert M ^b   Hartford, Alan ^b   Miller, Dwight ^b   Morse, Leonard ^b   Rakatansky, Herbert ^b   Riddick, Frank A ^b   Ruff, Victoria ^b   Wilkins, George ^b   Ile, Michael ^b   Munson, Jeffrey ^b   Latham, Stephen R ^b   Emanuel, Linda L ^a  

^a AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DYING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033540998     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.281.10.937     Document Type: Article

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