Who Am i to Decide Whether This Person Is to Die Today? Physicians' Life-or-Death Decisions for Elderly Critically Ill Patients at the Emergency Department-ICU Interface: A Qualitative Study

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 28-39.e3

  Fassier, Thomas ^a   Valour, Elizabeth ^a   Colin, Cyrille ^a,b   Danet, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONFUSION (UNCERTAINTY); CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTENSIVIST; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NON PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESUSCITATION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; STEREOTYPY; TERMINAL CARE; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; AGE; AGED; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84949034663     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2015.09.030     Document Type: Article

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