What matters to the parents? a qualitative study of parents' experiences with life-and-death decisions concerning their premature infants

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 388-404

  Brinchmann, Berit Støre ^a   Førde, Reidun ^a   Nortvedt, Per ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

critically ill premature infants; ethics of KE L gstrup; life and death; Norway; parents decision making

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NORWAY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; PARENT; PREMATURITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, NURSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MALE; NORWAY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PARENTS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 11244275696     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0969733002ne523oa     Document Type: Article

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