Surgeons expect patients to buy-in to postoperative life support preoperatively: Results of a national survey

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-8

  Schwarze, Margaret L ^a   Redmann, Andrew J ^a   Alexander, G Caleb ^b,c   Brasel, Karen J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

decision making; ethics; informed consent; patient autonomy; surgical outcomes

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SURGEON;

CONTRACTS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84872059819     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31826a4650     Document Type: Review

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