Decisions around the end of life on Intensive Care: Making the transition from curative to palliative treatment;Beslissingen rond het levenseinde op de Intensive Care: Overgang van curatieve naar palliatieve behandeling

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 149, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 742-746

  Van Der Werf, T S ^a   Zijlstra, J G ^a   Ligtenberg, J J M ^a   Tulleken, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ETHICS; FAMILY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MORALITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; SKILL; TERMINAL CARE;

DECISION MAKING; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; FAMILY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 16344388411     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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