End-of-life decision-making in the United States

European Journal of Anaesthesiology

Volumn 25, Issue SUPPL. 42, 2008, Pages 43-50

  Truog, R D ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Ethics; Organ donation; Persistent vegetative state; Professional family relations

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASSISTED SUICIDE; AUTHORITY; BRAIN DEATH; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSENSUS; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; FAMILY; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; ORGAN DONOR; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; RELIGION; REVIEW; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; TUBE FEEDING; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; COMA; DECISION MAKING; EUROPE; EUTHANASIA; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PROGNOSIS; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; BRAIN DEATH; COMA; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUROPE; EUTHANASIA; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TERMINAL CARE; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; UNITED STATES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 43149108377     PISSN: 02650215     EISSN: 13652346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0265021507003419     Document Type: Review

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