Withholding treatment, withdrawing treatment, and palliative care in the neonatal intensive care unit

Early Human Development

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 965-972

  Walther, Frans J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Counseling; Decision making; Ethics; Extremely preterm infants; Neonatal intensive care; Outcome; Palliative care; Parents; Withholding withdrawing

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEATH; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EMOTION; EUROPE; FAMILY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL STAFF; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NURSE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PARENT COUNSELING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

COUNSELING; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUROPE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MEDICAL FUTILITY; NETHERLANDS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PARENTS; SURVIVAL RATE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 27744461532     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2005.10.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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