Motivating factors in futile clinical interventions

Chest

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1944-1947

  Rivera, Seth ^a   Kim, Dong ^a   Garone, Shelley ^a   Morgenstern, Leon ^a   Mohsenifar, Zab ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Futility; Medically inappropriate

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MOTIVATION; NEOPLASM; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034885951     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.119.6.1944     Document Type: Article

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