End-of-Life Practices in the Intensive Care Unit: The Importance of Geography, Religion, Religious Affiliation, and Culture

End-of-life decisions are made daily in intensive care units worldwide. There are numerous factors affecting these decisions, including geographical location as well as religion and attitudes of caregivers, patients, and families. There is a spectrum of end-of-life care options from full continued c...

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Autores principales: Romain, Marc, Sprung, Charles L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Rambam Health Care Campus 2014
Materias:
Ethical and Societal Dilemmas in Modern Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3904478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24498510
http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10137
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description End-of-life decisions are made daily in intensive care units worldwide. There are numerous factors affecting these decisions, including geographical location as well as religion and attitudes of caregivers, patients, and families. There is a spectrum of end-of-life care options from full continued care, withholding treatment, withdrawing treatment, and active life-ending procedures.
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spelling pubmed-39044782014-02-04 End-of-Life Practices in the Intensive Care Unit: The Importance of Geography, Religion, Religious Affiliation, and Culture Romain, Marc Sprung, Charles L. Rambam Maimonides Med J Ethical and Societal Dilemmas in Modern Medicine End-of-life decisions are made daily in intensive care units worldwide. There are numerous factors affecting these decisions, including geographical location as well as religion and attitudes of caregivers, patients, and families. There is a spectrum of end-of-life care options from full continued care, withholding treatment, withdrawing treatment, and active life-ending procedures. Rambam Health Care Campus 2014-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3904478/ /pubmed/24498510 http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10137 Text en Copyright: © 2014 Romain and Sprung. This is an open-access article. All its content, except where otherwise noted, is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full_unstemmed End-of-Life Practices in the Intensive Care Unit: The Importance of Geography, Religion, Religious Affiliation, and Culture
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topic Ethical and Societal Dilemmas in Modern Medicine
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