Ethics seminars: Health care proxies and suicidal patients

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-68

  Bania, Theodore C ^a   Lee, Richard ^a   Clark, Mark ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Advance planning; Ethics; Health care proxies; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; DILTIAZEM; DOPAMINE; GLUCAGON;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG INTOXICATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LIVING WILL; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0037228112     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.10.1.65     Document Type: Article

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