Withholding and withdrawal from dialysis: What we know about how our patients die

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 195-199

  Germain, Michael J ^a,b,d   Cohen, Lewis M ^a   Davison, Sara N ^c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE PAIN; KIDNEY DISEASE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PALLIATIVE CARE; RENAL DIALYSIS; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 34250011445     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2007.00273.x     Document Type: Article

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