'Do not attempt resuscitation' and 'cardiopulmonary resuscitation' in an inpatient setting: factors influencing physicians' decisions in Switzerland
Published inGerontology, vol. 57, no. 5, p. 414-421
Publication date2011
Abstract
Keywords
- Adult
- Aged
- Attitude to Death
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation/ethics/psychology
- Critical Illness/psychology
- Decision Making/ethics
- Ethics Committees, Clinical/statistics & numerical data
- Female
- Hospitals, Teaching
- Humans
- Inpatients/psychology
- Male
- Medical Futility/ethics/legislation & jurisprudence/psychology
- Middle Aged
- Physicians/psychology
- Prognosis
- Quality of Life/psychology
- Resuscitation Orders/ethics/legislation & jurisprudence/psychology
- Switzerland
Citation (ISO format)
BECERRA, Maria-Elisa et al. “Do not attempt resuscitation” and “cardiopulmonary resuscitation” in an inpatient setting: factors influencing physicians” decisions in Switzerland. In: Gerontology, 2011, vol. 57, n° 5, p. 414–421. doi: 10.1159/000319422
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Article (Published version)
Identifiers
- PID : unige:24760
- DOI : 10.1159/000319422
- PMID : 21099190
Journal ISSN0304-324X
