Should patient consent be required to write a do not resuscitate order?

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 359-363

  Biegler, P ^a,b  

^a Sandringham Hospital   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGAL LIABILITY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LIABILITY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RESUSCITATION; TERMINAL CARE; WRITING;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; JUDGMENT; MALE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; TERMINALLY ILL; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0348156826     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.29.6.359     Document Type: Article

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