Withholding and Withdrawal of Life Support from the Critically Ill
Open Access
- 1 February 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 322 (5) , 309-315
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199002013220506
Abstract
We investigated decisions to withhold or withdraw life support from patients in the medical—surgical intensive care units at the Moffitt—Long Hospital of the University of California and San Francisco General Hospital, from July 1987 through June 1988.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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