Postpone death? : Nurse-physician perspectives on life-sustaining treatment and ethics rounds

The starting point of the present thesis is nurses’ reported experiences of disagreements with physicians for pushing life sustaining treatment too far. The overall aim was to describe and compare nurses’ and physicians’ perspectives on the boundaries for life-sustaining treatment and to evaluate wh...

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Main Author: Svantesson, Mia
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Örebro universitet, Hälsoakademin 2008
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-2093
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