Withholding and withdrawal of therapy in patients with acute renal injury: A retrospective cohort study

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 509-513

  Ho, K M ^a   Liang, J ^a   Hughes, T ^a   O'Connors, K ^a   Faulke, D ^a  

^a NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Kidney: impairment; Witholding, withdrawal of therapy: renal injury

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEW ZEALAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

EID: 0142030631     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x0303100503     Document Type: Article

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