There is a Duty to Treat Noncompliant Patients

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 28-31

  Balint, John ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLICY MAKING; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFUSAL TO TREAT; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035234115     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-139x.2001.00010.x     Document Type: Article

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