TY - JOUR
T1 - Treatment for Life-Threatening Illness
AU - Darzins, Peteris
AU - Molloy, D. William
AU - Harrison, Christine
PY - 1993/9/2
Y1 - 1993/9/2
N2 - To the Editor: Do physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and members of the general public systematically choose more aggressive treatment for patients they do not know and family members than they would want for themselves? To answer this question, we prepared a questionnaire, which was completed by 90 doctors, 251 nurses and other health professionals, and 193 high-school students and members of the general public. Using a standard clinical scenario tested in other studies,1–3 we asked respondents to choose a treatment for an 82-year-old man with dementia who was described as having arrived in the emergency department with life-threatening…
AB - To the Editor: Do physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and members of the general public systematically choose more aggressive treatment for patients they do not know and family members than they would want for themselves? To answer this question, we prepared a questionnaire, which was completed by 90 doctors, 251 nurses and other health professionals, and 193 high-school students and members of the general public. Using a standard clinical scenario tested in other studies,1–3 we asked respondents to choose a treatment for an 82-year-old man with dementia who was described as having arrived in the emergency department with life-threatening…
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0027202643&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1056/NEJM199309023291015
DO - 10.1056/NEJM199309023291015
M3 - Letter
C2 - 7688444
AN - SCOPUS:0027202643
VL - 329
JO - The New England Journal of Medicine
JF - The New England Journal of Medicine
SN - 0028-4793
IS - 10
ER -