Impediments to writing do-not-resuscitate orders

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 159, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 2213-2218

  Eliasson, Arn H ^a,b   Parker, Joseph M ^a,b   Shorr, Andrew F ^a,b   Babb, Katherine A ^a   Harris, Roy ^a   Aaronson, Barry A ^a,b   Diemer, Margretta ^a,b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; FUTILITY; WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER (WASHINGTON, DC); WALTER REED MEDICAL CENTER;

ADULT; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033547188     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.159.18.2213     Document Type: Article

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