Impact of advanced healthcare directives on treatment decisions by physicians in patients with acute stroke

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1468-1475

  Qureshi, Adnan I ^a   Chaudhry, Saqib A ^a   Connelly, Bo ^a   Abott, Emily ^a   Janjua, Tariq ^b   Kim, Stanley H ^c   Miley, Jefferson T ^c   Rodriguez, Gustavo J ^a,d   Uzun, Guven ^e   Watanabe, Masaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b St Joseph's Hospital   (United States)

^c Neurosurgery Endovascular and Spine Center   (United States)

^d HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Beverly Hills Pain Institute and Neurology   (United States)

Author keywords

advanced healthcare directives; cardiac resuscitation; disability; intracerebral hemorrhage; ischemic stroke; patient choice; patient's right of determination; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPERPYREXIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIVING WILL; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEMORY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE PATIENT; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICIANS; STROKE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84878570480     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31827cab82     Document Type: Article

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