Refusal of care: Patients' well-being and physicians' ethical obligations: "But doctor, I want to go home"

JAMA

Volumn 296, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 691-695

  Carrese, Joseph A ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT RIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 33746864949     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.296.6.691     Document Type: Review

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