Survival with disability. Whose life is it, anyway?

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1062-1063

  Menon, D K ^a   Kolias, A G ^a   Servadei, F ^b   Hutchinson, P J ^a  

^a Cambridge ESOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM; ACUTE DISEASE; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIALYSIS; DISABILITY SEVERITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FAMILY DECISION MAKING; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETTER; LONG TERM CARE; MANAGED CARE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORTALITY RATE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHARED DECISION MAKING; SHOPPING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TRAVEL; ANESTHESIST; CRANIECTOMY; DISABILITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYING; SELF ESTEEM; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL; SURVIVOR; DISABLED PERSON; MEDICAL RESEARCH;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DISABLED PERSONS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 85034748858     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aex374     Document Type: Letter

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