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Physicians’ attitudes toward medical and ethical challenges for patients in the vegetative state: comparing Canadian and German perspectives in a vignette survey

BACKGROUND: Physicians treating patients in the vegetative state (VS) must deal with uncertainty in diagnosis and prognosis, as well as ethical issues. We examined whether physicians’ attitudes toward medical and ethical challenges vary across two national medical practice settings. METHODS: A compa...

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Autores principales: Kuehlmeyer, Katja, Palmour, Nicole, Riopelle, Richard J, Bernat, James L, Jox, Ralf J, Racine, Eric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4064260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24898329
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-14-119