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Ethics roundtable debate: Patients and surrogates want 'everything done' – what does 'everything' mean?

Highly complex and specialized care plans sometimes overwhelm the comprehension of patients and families. Many optimistic surrogates of critically ill patients err on the side of desiring that everything be done but with a nebulous idea of what 'everything' entails. Physicians must work cl...

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Autores principales: Doig, Christopher, Murray, Holt, Bellomo, Rinaldo, Kuiper, Michael, Costa, Rubens, Azoulay, Elie, Crippen, David
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1751064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17020595
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc5016

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