Do not resuscitate: Ordering nonassault and charting patients' decisions to forgo cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1593-1595

  Veatch, Robert M ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT RIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

CONSENT FORMS; DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL RECORDS; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038581101     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000063285.51883.19     Document Type: Editorial

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