Attitudes toward withholding antibiotics from people with dementia lacking decisional capacity: findings from a survey of Canadian stakeholders

BACKGROUND: Healthcare professionals and surrogate decision-makers often face the difficult decision of whether to initiate or withhold antibiotics from people with dementia who have developed a life-threatening infection after losing decisional capacity. METHODS: We conducted a vignette-based surve...

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Autores principales: Bravo, Gina, Van den Block, Lieve, Downie, Jocelyn, Arcand, Marcel, Trottier, Lise
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8420012/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34488722
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12910-021-00689-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8420012/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34488722
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12910-021-00689-1

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