Cargando…
Medical treatment for the terminally ill: the 'risk of unacceptable badness'
When patients or their families rarely request inappropriate end of life care in the ICU for capricious reasons. End of life treatment decisions that only prolong discomfort and death are usually emotional and based on unrealistic expectations. I explore some of those reasons in this paper.
Autor principal: | |
---|---|
Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
BioMed Central
2005
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1269444/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16137368 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc3715 |