Japanese physicians' practice of withholding and withdrawing mechanical ventilation and artificial nutrition and hydration from older adults with very severe stroke

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 263-272

  Aita, Kaoruko ^a   Miyata, Hiroaki ^b   Takahashi, Miyako ^a   Kai, Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial nutrition and hydration; Japan; Life sustaining treatment; Mechanical ventilation; Withholding and withdrawing care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; HUMAN; HYDRATION; JAPAN; JAPANESE; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JAPAN; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SOCIAL VALUES; STROKE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 41249101197     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2007.04.006     Document Type: Article

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