Therapeutic futility as an ethical issue: intensive care unit nurses La obstinación terapéutica como una cuestión ética: enfermeras de unidades de terapia intensiva Obstinação terapêutica como questão ética: enfermeiras de unidades de terapia intensiva
Therapeutic futility in intensive care units (ICUs) is still little discussed among nursing professionals responsible for implementing prescribed procedures, which they might disagree on. Therefore, interviews were carried out with ICU nurses to understand how they are coping with the implementation...
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Universidade de São Paulo
2009-06-01
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| Series: | Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-11692009000300005 |