Medical futility procedures what more do We need to know?

Chest

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1707-1711

  Rubin, Emily ^a   Courtwright, Andrew ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATERNALISM; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

EID: 84887484323     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.13-1240     Document Type: Article

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