End-of-life practices in a tertiary intensive care unit in Saudi Arabia

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 137-141

  Aldawood, A S ^a,b   Alsultan, M ^a,b   Arabi, Y M ^a,b   Baharoon, S A ^a,b   Al Qahtani, M ^a   Haddad, S H ^a,b   Al Dorzi, H M ^a   Jahdali, H A ^a,b,c   Alatassi, A ^a   Rishu, A H ^a  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^c Department of Pulmonary Medicine ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Do not resuscitate decisions; End of life decisions; End of life practices; Intensive care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FAMILY DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIGION; RESUSCITATION; SAUDI ARABIA; TERMINAL CARE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84856448296     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: 14480271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x1204000116     Document Type: Article

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