Patient-related factors and circumstances surrounding decisions to forego life-sustaining treatment, including intensive care unit admission refusal

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2076-2083

  Reignier, Jean ^a   Dumont, Romain ^b   Katsahian, Sandrine ^c   Martin Lefevre, Laurent ^a   Renard, Benoit ^a   Fiancette, Maud ^a   Lebert, Christine ^a   Clementi, Eva ^a   Bontemps, Frederic ^a  

^a Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit District Hospital Center   (France)

^b HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^c SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Critical care; Ethics; Life sustaining treatments; Triage; Withdrawal; Withholding

Indexed keywords

VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; TELEPHONE; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; FRANCE; INTENSIVE CARE; LONG TERM CARE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

CRITICAL CARE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFUSAL TO TREAT; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TRIAGE;

EID: 47249166105     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31817c0ea7     Document Type: Article

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