Perspectives on practicing procedures on the newly dead

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 786-790

  Oman, Kathleen S ^a   Armstrong, John David ^a   Stoner, Martha ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Consent; Deceased; Newly dead; Procedures; Skills

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CITY; COMPETENCE; FEMALE; FIRST AID; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFORMED CONSENT; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CADAVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEATH; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESUSCITATION; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 0036337317     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.9.8.786     Document Type: Article

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