End-of-life decisions in Dutch neonatal intensive care units

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 895-901

  Verhagen, A A Eduard ^a   Dorscheidt, Jozef H H M ^a   Engels, Bernadette ^a   Hubben, Joep H ^a   Sauer, Pieter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE REGISTRY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DECISION MAKING; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 70349754470     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.166     Document Type: Article

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