Editorial comment: Withdrawing or withholding artificial hydration and nutrition

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 376-378

  Eby, Maureen A ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; ENTERIC FEEDING; FLUID THERAPY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; NURSING; PASSIVE EUTHANASIA; STANDARD;

ENTERAL NUTRITION; ETHICS, NURSING; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS;

EID: 0034278779     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096973300000700502     Document Type: Editorial

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