Withholding nutrition at the end of life: Clinical and ethical issues

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 548-552

  Slomka, Jacquelyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; CONVALESCENCE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIET RESTRICTION; FAMILY; HUMAN; HYDRATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PHYSICIAN; REVIEW; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TUBE FEEDING;

EID: 0038209284     PISSN: 08911150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.70.6.548     Document Type: Review

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