Choice architecture in code status discussions with terminally ill patients and their families

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1065-1067

  Anesi, George L ^a,b   Halpern, Scott D ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Fostering Improvement in End of Life Decision Science (FIELDS)   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; CHOICE ARCHITECTURE; COMPRESSION; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE CONCEPTS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIVING WILL; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PHYSICIAN; RESUSCITATION; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; ETHICS; FAMILY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGY; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; FAMILY; HUMANS; PATIENTS; PHYSICIANS; RESUSCITATION ORDERS;

EID: 84960086320     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-016-4294-7     Document Type: Article

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