Circumstances surrounding dying in the paediatric intensive care unit

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  ten Berge, Jetske ^a   de Gast Bakker, Dana Anne H ^a   Plötz, Frans B ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN DEATH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; RESUSCITATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AUTOPSY; BRAIN DEATH; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MALE; NETHERLANDS; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 33748194219     PISSN: 14712431     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-6-22     Document Type: Article

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