On what are our end‐of‐life decisions based?
- 21 August 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
- Vol. 46 (8) , 947-954
- https://doi.org/10.1034/j.1399-6576.2002.460804.x
Abstract
Background: The incidence of withholding and withdrawing life support from the critically ill has increased in recent years. The aim of this study was to assess the degree of consistency between the...Keywords
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