Withdrawal from long-term hemodialysis in patients with end-stage renal disease in taiwan

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 589-599

  Lai, Chun Fu ^a   Tsai, Hung Bin ^a   Hsu, Su Hsuan ^a   Chiang, Chih Kang ^a   Huang, Jenq Wen ^a   Huang, Sheng Jean ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Advance care planning; Medical ethics; Palliative care; Personal autonomy; Withholding treatment

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; APPETITE DISORDER; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ELDERLY CARE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HOME CARE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; LONG TERM CARE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OLIGURIA; OXYGEN THERAPY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; TAIWAN; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; THORACOCENTESIS; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VOMITING;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

CULTURE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; TAIWAN; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84885294907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 09296646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfma.2013.04.009     Document Type: Review

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