The Durban World Congress Ethics Round Table Conference Report: II. Withholding or withdrawing of treatment in elderly patients admitted to the intensive care unit

Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 896-901

  Guidet, Bertrand ^a,b,c   Hodgson, Eric ^d   Feldman, Charles ^e   Paruk, Fathima ^f   Lipman, Jeffrey ^g   Koh, Younsuck ^h   Vincent, Jean Louis ⁱ   Azoulay, Elie ^j   Sprung, Charles L ^k  

^a HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c INSTITUT PIERRE LOUIS D EPIDÉMIOLOGIE ET DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^g UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^h University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

ⁱ ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^j SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^k HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

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Author keywords

Elderly; Ethics; Intensive care; Life sustaining treatment

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; LIKERT SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VERY ELDERLY; AGE; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITALIZATION; INTENSIVE CARE; LIVING WILL; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; ORGANIZATION;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TERMINAL CARE; TRIAGE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84908089872     PISSN: 08839441     EISSN: 15578615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2014.08.004     Document Type: Article

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