Editorial: The worst is yet to come. Many elderly patients with chronic terminal illnesses will eventually die in the emergency department

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 732-734

  Kompanje, Erwin J O ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; DEATH; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY NURSE PRACTITIONER; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FRANCE; NOTE;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FRANCE; HUMANS; TERMINALLY ILL; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 77951209063     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-010-1803-y     Document Type: Editorial

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