End-of-life care in Toronto neonatal intensive care units: Challenges for physician trainees

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  El Sayed, Manal F ^a   Chan, Melissa ^b   McAllister, Mary ^a   Hellmann, Jonathan ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; CANADA; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; CULTURAL BIAS; FAMILY DECISION MAKING; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PARENT COUNSELING; PATIENT COMFORT; POSTGRADUATE STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; RESUSCITATION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL SECURITY; STUDENT ATTITUDE; TERMINAL CARE;

END-OF-LIFE; INFANT; PHYSICIAN; TORONTO; TRAINEE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CANADA; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; NEONATOLOGY; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84886088282     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2012-303000     Document Type: Article

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