Predicting decline and survival in severe acute brain injury: The fourth trajectory

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 351, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Creutzfeldt, Claire J ^a   Longstreth, W T ^a   Holloway, Robert G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FAMILY DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; ILLNESS TRAJECTORY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TRUST; BRAIN INJURIES; CONVALESCENCE; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE COURSE; INFORMED CONSENT; MORTALITY; TERMINAL CARE;

BRAIN INJURIES; DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STANDARD OF CARE; TERMINAL CARE; THIRD-PARTY CONSENT;

EID: 84942342273     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h3904     Document Type: Article

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