Quality of ethical guidelines and ethical content in clinical guidelines: The example of end-of-life decision-making

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 390-396

  Strech, Daniel ^a   Schildmann, Jan ^b  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; TERMINAL CARE;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 80052409124     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: 14734257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2010.040121     Document Type: Article

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