The role of advance directives in end-of-life decisions in Austria: Survey of intensive care physicians

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Schaden, Eva ^a   Herczeg, Petra ^a   Hacker, Stefan ^a   Schopper, Andrea ^b   Krenn, Claus G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Faculty of Social Sciences ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LEGAL ASPECT; LIVING WILL; MANPOWER; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRIA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TERMINAL CARE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 77958073964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-11-19     Document Type: Article

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