'They have to show that they can make it': Vitality as a criterion for the prognosis of premature infants

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 141-147

  Brinchmann, Berit Støre ^a,b  

^a NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Decision making; Ethics; Nursing; Premature babies; Vitality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL STAFF; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NORWAY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; PASSIVE EUTHANASIA; PATIENT SELECTION; PREMATURITY; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, CLINICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; ETHICS, NURSING; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MEDICAL FUTILITY; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NORWAY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0034149748     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/096973300676902959     Document Type: Article

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