Death of terminally ill patients on a stretcher in the emergency department: A French speciality?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1625-1628

  Tardy, Bernard ^a   Venet, C ^a   Zeni, F ^a   Berthet, O ^a   Viallon, A ^a   Lemaire, F ^b   Bertrand, J C ^a  

^a SERVICE DE NEUROLOGIE   (France)

^b HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Death; Emergency department; End of life care; Life support; Terminal illness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FRANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERMINAL DISEASE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 12244277888     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-002-1517-x     Document Type: Article

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