Expanding the paradigm of the physician's role in surrogate decision-making: An empirically derived framework

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 743-750

  White, Douglas B ^a   Malvar, Grace ^b   Karr, Jennifer ^b   Lo, Bernard ^b   Curtis, J Randall ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

End of life care; Ethics; Physician recommendations; Surrogate decision making

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; INFORMED CONSENT; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 77249150905     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181c58842     Document Type: Article

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