Impact of withdrawal of care and futile care on trauma mortality

Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 854-860

  Franklin, Glen A ^a   Cannon, Robert W ^a   Smith, Jason W ^a   Harbrecht, Brain G ^a   Miller, Frank B ^a   Richardson, J David ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; WITHDRAWAL OF CARE;

AGE FACTORS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; KENTUCKY; MALE; MEDICAL FUTILITY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 80054123287     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2011.07.065     Document Type: Article

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