Managing End-Of-Life Decision Making in Intensive Care Medicine - A Perspective from Charité Hospital, Germany

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Graw, Jan A ^a   Spies, Claudia D ^a   Wernecke, Klaus D ^a   Braun, Jan Peter ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCUMENTATION; END OF LIFE DECISION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITAL BED; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; DECISION MAKING; GERMANY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84867010762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046446     Document Type: Article

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