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Gender influences end-of-life decisions

Authors: ME Lissauer, L Smitz-Naranjo, SB Johnson

Published in: Critical Care | Special Issue 1/2011

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End-of-life care is an unavoidable component of critical care. Despite palliative care guidelines, wide variations exist in patient selection and implementation of limitations in care decisions. Understanding why some patients have care limited and some are provided full resuscitative efforts allows opportunities for improving care at the end of life. …

Title: Gender influences end-of-life decisions
Authors: ME Lissauer
L Smitz-Naranjo
SB Johnson
Publication date: 01-02-2011
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Critical Care / Issue Special Issue 1/2011
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/cc9942

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