A request for hospice admission from hospital to withdraw ventilation
A request to admit a hospital inpatient with motor neurone disease to the hospice generated unusual unease. Significantly, withdrawal of ventilation had already been planned. The presumption that ventilation would be withdrawn after transfer presented a dilemma. Should the hospice accept the admissi...
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BMJ Publ.
2005
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2005, Volume: 31, Issue: 7, Pages: 383-384 |
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