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Withholding and withdrawing life sustaining treatment from elderly people
 — towards formal guidelines
Author(s)Len Doyal, Daniel Wilsher
Journal titleBritish Medical Journal, vol 308, no 6945, 25 June 1994
Pagespp 1689-1692
KeywordsMedical care ; Rights [elderly].
AnnotationDiscusses the need for written guidelines, and argues that there are specific principles for non-treatment which can be applied to characteristic dilemmas in geriatric medicine, such as dementia.
Accession NumberCPA-940627004 A
ClassmarkLK: IKR*

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