Withholding the artificial administration of fluids and food from elderly patients with dementia: Ethnographic study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 325, Issue 7376, 2002, Pages 1326-1329

  The, Anne Mei ^a   Pasman, Roeline ^a   Onwuteaka Philipsen, Bregje ^a   Ribbe, Miel ^a   Van der Wal, Gerrit ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; DIET RESTRICTION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MALE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; ENTERAL NUTRITION; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LIVING WILLS; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0037039013     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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