Experts' attitudes towards medical futility: An empirical survey from Japan

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bagheri, Alireza ^a   Asai, Atsushi ^b   Ida, Ryuichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BIOETHICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH; THEORY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGED; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; ETHICIST; ETHICS; FAMILY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; LONG TERM CARE; PATERNALISM; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

AGED; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION MAKING; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; ETHICISTS; ETHICS COMMITTEES, CLINICAL; FAMILY; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MEDICAL FUTILITY; PATERNALISM; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUSAL TO TREAT; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 33747640592     PISSN: 14726939     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-7-8     Document Type: Article

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