1. Withholding and Withdrawing Life-sustaining Therapy
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Gordon L. Snider, Paul N. Lanken, B. D. Ahlheit, J. L. Robotham, Stephen W. Crawford, D. D. Storey, John Hansen-Flaschen, M. A. Matthay, John M. Luce, Stephen S. Lefrak, Paul A. Selecky, Peter B. Terry, Thomas A. Raffin, and Molly L. Osborne
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Adult ,Freedom ,Risk ,Patients ,Social Values ,Critical Illness ,Decision Making ,Risk Assessment ,Treatment Refusal ,Life Support Care ,Nursing ,Informed consent ,Physicians ,Internal Medicine ,Humans ,Medicine ,Family ,Mental Competency ,Third-Party Consent ,Ethics Committees ,Physician-Patient Relations ,Informed Consent ,business.industry ,Persistent Vegetative State ,Beneficence ,General Medicine ,Reference Standards ,Altruism ,Euthanasia, Passive ,Organizational Policy ,Withholding Treatment ,Personal Autonomy ,Ethics Committees, Clinical ,Patient Participation ,Advance Directives ,Societies ,business ,Medical Futility - Published
- 1991
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