Balancing professional tension and deciding upon the status of death: Making end-of-life decisions in intensive care units

This study investigated how intensivists make decisions regarding withholding and withdrawing treatment for patients at the end of their lives. This involved completing in-depth interviews from two sites of the South of England, United Kingdom by twelve intensivists. The data collected by these inte...

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Main Authors: Emmanouela Konstantara, Tushna Vandrevala, Anna Cox, Benedict C Creagh-Brown, Jane Ogden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-01-01
Series:Health Psychology Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2055102915622928