Caring to communicate revisited

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1672-1673

  Happ, Mary Beth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmentative and alternative communication; communication difficulty; decisional capacity; end of life; mechanical ventilation; patient communication; treatment decision making

Indexed keywords

CARE AND CARING; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL CARE; TRACHEOSTOMY; VENTILATED PATIENT;

HUMANS; LIPREADING; MALE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 84860249788     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182452016     Document Type: Editorial

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