The controversy over artificial hydration and nutrition

Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1618-1619

  Bernat, James L ^a   Beresford, H Richard ^b,c  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c MIT Sloan School of Management   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HYDRATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EDITORIAL; EUTHANASIA; FLUID THERAPY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NUTRITION; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 33745662406     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000220836.46827.75     Document Type: Editorial

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