Is there any consensus about end-of-life care in pediatrics?

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 159, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 889-891

  Burns, Jeffrey P ^a   Mitchell, Christine ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; MORPHINE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; OPIATE; SEDATIVE AGENT;

CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EDITORIAL; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANALGESICS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSENSUS; DECISION MAKING; EUTHANASIA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MORALS; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKADE; PEDIATRICS; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 24344473425     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.159.9.889     Document Type: Editorial

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