Do-not-resuscitate order after 25 years

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1543-1550

  Burns, Jeffrey P ^a,b   Edwards, Jeffrey ^a   Johnson, Judith ^b   Cassem, Ned H ^a,c   Truog, Robert D ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation refusal; Do not resuscitate order; Futility; Presumed consent

Indexed keywords

CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; DO NOT RESUSCITATE ORDER; DYING; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ETHICS; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL FUTILITY; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RESUSCITATION; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038324079     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000064743.44696.49     Document Type: Review

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