Impact of ethics and economics on end-of-life decisions in an indian neonatal unit

Pediatrics

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Miljeteig, Ingrid ^a   Sayeed, Sadath Ali ^b,c,d   Jesani, Amar ^e   Johansson, Kjell Arne ^a   Norheim, Ole Frithjof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Institute of Anusandhan Trust   (India)

Author keywords

Decision making; Ethics; India; Infant; Newborn; Social determinants of health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL ETHICS; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; MEDICAL FUTILITY; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 67749132616     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-3227     Document Type: Article

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