What can we learn from the experiences of consultants around the time of a child's death?

Child: Care, Health and Development

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 732-739

  Baverstock, Anna ^a   Finlay, F ^a  

^a Child Health Department   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consultant; Decision making; Withdrawing treatment; Withholding treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; CHILD DEATH; CONSULTATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PARENTAL NOTIFICATION; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PEDIATRICIAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; RESUSCITATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSULTANTS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PEDIATRICS; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 54949150190     PISSN: 03051862     EISSN: 13652214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2008.00875.x     Document Type: Article

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