Nutrition support and the troubling trichotomy: A call to action

Nutrition in Clinical Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 109-112

  Barrocas, Albert ^a  

^a South Fulton Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FLUID THERAPY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; LAW; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NOTE; NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PALLIATIVE CARE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 33747069713     PISSN: 08845336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0115426506021002109     Document Type: Note

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