End-of-life care: Is euthanasia the answer?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 6-8

  Truog, Robert D ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PANEL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PEER REVIEW; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

BELGIUM; EUTHANASIA; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENTION; PAIN; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 29844453245     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-005-2870-3     Document Type: Editorial

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