The legal guardians' dilemma: Decision making associated with invasive non-life-saving procedures

BACKGROUND: ICU patients frequently undergo non-life-saving invasive procedures. When patient informed consent cannot be obtained, legal guardianship (LG), often from a close relative, may be required by law. The objective of this cohort study was to investigate the attitudes of LGs of ICU patients...

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Autores principales: Kuniavsky, Michael, Ganz, Freda DeKeyser, Linton, David M, Sviri, Sigal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Original Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3467171/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23006738
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2045-4015-1-36

Internet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3467171/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23006738
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2045-4015-1-36

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