Treatment decisions after severe stroke: Uncertainty and Biases

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3405-3408

  Creutzfeldt, Claire J ^a   Holloway, Robert G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Outcome; Palliative care; Prognosis; Stroke

Indexed keywords

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL FUTILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; UNCERTAINTY; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84870946973     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.112.673376     Document Type: Note

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