Who Is "Too Sick to Benefit"?

Hastings Center Report

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 41-47

  Courtwright, Andrew ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ETHICS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NOMENCLATURE; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MEDICAL FUTILITY; PROGNOSIS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TRIAGE;

EID: 84865282176     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: 1552146X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hast.51     Document Type: Article

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