Terri Schiavo - A tragedy compounded

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 352, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1630-1633

  Quill, Timothy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSISTED SUICIDE; FEEDING APPARATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; JURISPRUDENCE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUBE FEEDING;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; LEGAL APPROACH;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEGAL GUARDIANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; PARENTS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; RIGHT TO DIE; SPOUSES; THIRD-PARTY CONSENT; UNITED STATES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 17244381934     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp058062     Document Type: Review

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