Poor Involvement of General Practitioners in Decisions of Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment in Emergency Departments

Marion Douplat,Khadidja Daoud,Julien Berthiller,Anne-Marie Schott,Véronique Potinet,Pierre Le Coz,Karim Tazarourte,Laurent Jacquin

Poor Involvement of General Practitioners in Decisions of Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment in Emergency Departments

2019

Marion Douplat
Khadidja Daoud
Julien Berthiller
Anne-Marie Schott
Véronique Potinet
Pierre Le Coz
Karim Tazarourte
Laurent Jacquin

Background Decisions of withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment are frequent in emergency departments (ED) and patients are often unable to communicate their wishes concerning end of life desires.

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Medicine
Life sustaining treatment
primary care
Nursing
Terminal care
outcome data
Emergency department
Family medicine
Observational study
multicenter study

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