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Treatment termination in long term home health care
— What about the physician? What about the family? | | Author(s) | Ellen Olson |
| Journal title | The Journal of Long Term Home Health Care : the PRIDE Institute Journal, vol 16, no 1, Winter 1997 |
| Pages | pp 14-21 |
| Keywords | Medical care ; Terminal care ; Social ethics ; Nursing homes ; Long term ; Doctors ; The Family ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Under what circumstances is it appropriate to consider limiting treatment in the long-term care setting, and how can decisions be made? The views of doctors and the family on life and death are likely to differ. Medical education on ethics and end-of-life decisions should discuss such dilemmas. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980129219 A |
| Classmark | LK: LV: TQ: LHB: 4Q: QT2: SJ: 7T |
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