Influence of personal preferences for life-sustaining treatment on medical decision making among pediatric intensivists

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2464-2469

  Needle, Jennifer S ^a   Mularski, Richard A ^b   Nguyen, Thuan ^c   Fromme, Erik K ^d  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Division of Biostatistics   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

end of life care; pediatric intensive care; pediatrics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EXPERT; PERSONAL PREFERENCE; PERSONAL PREFERENCE SCORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIANS; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84864204979     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318255d85b     Document Type: Article

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