End-of-life decisions in an Indian intensive care unit

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1713-1719

  Mani, Raj Kumar ^a   Mandal, Amit Kumar ^a   Bal, Sabyasachi ^a   Javeri, Yash ^a   Kumar, Rakesh ^a   Nama, Deepak Kumar ^a   Pandey, Praveen ^a   Rawat, Tara ^a   Singh, Navneet ^a   Tewari, Hemant ^a   Uttam, Rajiv ^a  

^a FORTIS HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDIAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEPSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72449132325     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-009-1561-x     Document Type: Article

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