Doctors' and nurses' attitudes towards neonatal ethical decision making in Ireland

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Samaan, M C ^a,d   Cuttini, M ^b   Casotto, V ^c   Ryan, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c Regional Health Agency of Tuscany   (Italy)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EUROPE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; IRELAND; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MOSLEM; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SCORING SYSTEM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MEDICAL STAFF; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; NURSING STAFF; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, CLINICAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; IRELAND; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL;

EID: 44049094974     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.113597     Document Type: Article

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