Nobody likes premies: The relative value of patients' lives

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 821-826

  Janvier, A ^a   Leblanc, I ^a   Barrington, K J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; EARLY INTERVENTION; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEWBORN CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREMATURITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

BIOETHICAL ISSUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESUSCITATION; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TRIAGE;

EID: 57049170746     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: 14765543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jp.2008.103     Document Type: Article

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