Terminal sedation, self-starvation, and orchestrating the end of life

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 329-332

  Loewy, E H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUTHANASIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; NOTE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; STARVATION; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0035847671     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.161.3.329     Document Type: Note

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