Making decisions about tube feeding for severely demented patients at the end of life: Clinical, legal, and ethical considerations

Death Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 233-254

  Hoefler, James M ^a  

^a DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; DEHYDRATION; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; HYDRATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TUBE FEEDING;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES;

ATTITUDE; CAREGIVERS; DECISION MAKING; DEHYDRATION; DEMENTIA; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ENTERAL NUTRITION; ETHICS, CLINICAL; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; TERMINAL CARE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0034027993     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: 10917683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/074811800200568     Document Type: Article

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