End-of-life decision making in nursing home residents with dementia and pneumonia: Dutch physicians' intentions regarding hastening death

Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 148-155

  Van Der Steen, Jenny T ^a   Van Der Wal, Gerrit ^a   Mehr, David R ^b   Ooms, Marcel E ^a   Ribbe, Miel W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Dementia; Intention; Nursing homes; Pneumonia; Withholding treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEATH; DEMENTIA; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; NETHERLANDS; NURSING HOME; PHYSICIAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEATH; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PNEUMONIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 27544449106     PISSN: 08930341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wad.0000175525.99104.b7     Document Type: Article

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