The practice of do-not-resuscitate orders in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The experience of a tertiary care center

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1278-1279

  Ur Rahman, Masoor ^a   Arabi, Yaseen ^a   Adhami, Naeem A ^a   Parker, Barbara ^a   Al Shimemeri, Abdullah ^a  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CANCER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DYING; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INJURY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; RELATIVE; RESUSCITATION; SAUDI ARABIA; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERMINAL CARE;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; SAUDI ARABIA; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 5044237155     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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