Artificially giving nutrition and fluids is not one action [8]

British Medical Journal

Volumn 326, Issue 7391, 2003, Pages 713-

  Finucane, Thomas ^a   Christmas, Colleen ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEATH; DEHYDRATION; DEMENTIA; DIET THERAPY; FLUID INTAKE; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUTRITION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TUBE FEEDING;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; TERMINALLY ILL; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0037471835     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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