Do not resuscitate does not mean do not treat: How palliative care and other modalities can help facilitate communication about goals of care in advanced illness

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 460-465

  Smith, Cardinale B ^a   O'Neill, Lynn Bunch ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced directives; Do not rescuscitate order; Goals of care; Life sustaining treatments; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AGED; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONSULTATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEVER; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIVING WILL; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; TACHYCARDIA;

AGED; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION ORDERS;

EID: 57149090934     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20076     Document Type: Review

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