End-of-life decision making - Have we got it right?

European Journal of Cancer Care

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 212-214

  Shah, Sanjay ^a,c   Lloyd Williams, M ^b  

^a Palliative Medicine Service   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Leicestershire Hospice   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

End of life care; Palliative care; Quality of life; Withdrawing life prolonging treatments; Withholding life prolonging treatments

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; OPIATE;

CANCER; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DEATH; EUTHANASIA; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; ARTICLE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DECISION MAKING; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PASSIVE EUTHANASIA; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT RIGHT; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

DECISION MAKING; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; HUMANS; MEDICAL FUTILITY; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT RIGHTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0141923380     PISSN: 09615423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2354.2003.00408.x     Document Type: Review

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