Withholding care in intracerebral hemorrhage: Realistic compassion or self-fulfilling prophecy?

Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 1647-1648

  Rabinstein, Alejandro A ^a   Diringer, Michael N ^b  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMATOSE PATIENT; DEATH EDUCATION; DISABILITY; EDITORIAL; FAMILY COUNSELING; HEART ARREST; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL ORDER; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL; TERMINAL DISEASE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNCERTAINTY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COMA; COMORBIDITY; EMPATHY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RISK; TERMINAL CARE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 34248524657     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000266630.02350.69     Document Type: Editorial

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