Hospital do-not-resuscitate orders: Why they have failed and how to fix them

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 791-797

  Yuen, Jacqueline K ^a   Reid, M Carrington ^a   Fetters, Michael D ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

End of life care; Informed consent; Kwd do not resuscitate orders

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; DEATH; DO NOT RESUSCITATE ORDER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 80051551078     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-011-1632-x     Document Type: Review

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