Advance care planning: Pitfalls, progress, promise

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2001, Pages

  Prendergast, T J ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance directives; Communication; Critical care; Decision making; Ethics; Intensive care units; Medical; Negotiation; Physician patient relations

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYING; ETHICS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0035110542     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200102001-00007     Document Type: Review

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