What has happened to clinical leadership in futile care discussions?

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 188, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 418-419

  Murphy, Brendan F ^a  

^a AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROANGIOPATHY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VASCULAR ACCESS; VISUAL DISORDER; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; FAMILY; LEGAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL FUTILITY; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 46249094502     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01690.x     Document Type: Article

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