Do-not-resuscitate orders in the surgical setting

Lancet

Volumn 365, Issue 9461, 2005, Pages 733-735

  Truog, Robert D ^a   Waisel, David B ^a   Burns, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 14644444199     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)70978-8     Document Type: Note

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