Drafting guidelines for the withholding or withdrawing of life sustaining treatment in critically ill children and neonates

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2000, Pages

  Doyal, L ^a   Larcher, V F ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASSISTED VENTILATION; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT RIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0033935989     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.83.1.f60     Document Type: Review

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