End-of-life decisions in Greek intensive care units: A multicenter cohort study

Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Kranidiotis, Georgios ^a   Gerovasili, Vasiliki ^a   Tasoulis, Athanasios ^a   Tripodaki, Elli ^a   Vasileiadis, Ioannis ^b   Magira, Eleni ^c   Markaki, Vasiliki ^a   Routsi, Christina ^a   Prekates, Athanasios ^c   Kyprianou, Theodoros ^d   Clouva Molyvdas, Phyllis Maria ^b   Georgiadis, Georgios ^e   Floros, Ioannis ^f   Karabinis, Andreas ^g   Nanas, Serafim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b THRIASIO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c TZANEIO GENERAL HOSPITAL OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^d NICOSIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Cyprus)

^e METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^f LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^g G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FATALITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GREECE; HUMAN; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; LIVING WILL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELATIVE; RESUSCITATION; SURGICAL PATIENT; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNCERTAINTY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; LONG TERM CARE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; TERMINAL CARE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 78650268539     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc9380     Document Type: Article

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