Withholding or withdrawing artificial administration of food and fluids in nursing-home patients

Age and Ageing

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 459-465

  Onwuteaka Philipsen, Bregje D ^a   Pasman, H Roeline W ^a   Kruit, Aline ^b   Van Der Heide, Agnes ^c   Ribbe, Miel W ^a   Van Der Wal, Gerrit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Zorg en Reactivering   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision making; Enteral nutrition; Nursing homes; Withholding withdrawing treatment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DYING; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTERVIEW; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NETHERLANDS; NURSING HOME; NURSING STAFF; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; RELATIVE;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECISION MAKING; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NURSING HOMES; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0035692347     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/30.6.459     Document Type: Article

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