Ethics and decision making in end stage lung disease

Thorax

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 272-277

  Simonds, A K ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT RIGHT; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MEDICAL FUTILITY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFUSAL TO TREAT; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0037340245     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thorax.58.3.272     Document Type: Review

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