Moral dilemmas and conflicts concerning patients in a vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: shared or non-shared decision making? A qualitative study of the professional perspective in two moral case deliberations

BACKGROUND: Patients in a vegetative state/ unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (VS/UWS) pose ethical dilemmas to those involved. Many conflicts occur between professionals and families of these patients. In the Netherlands physicians are supposed to withdraw life sustaining treatment once recovery is...

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Autores principales: Span-Sluyter, Conny A. M. F. H., Lavrijsen, Jan C. M., van Leeuwen, Evert, Koopmans, Raymond T. C. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5824545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29471814
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12910-018-0247-8

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