A critical review of the factors leading to cardiopulmonary resuscitation as the default position of hospitalized patients in the USA regardless of severity of illness
Abstract Background Physicians are occasionally faced with patients requesting full resuscitation against medical advice. More commonly, neither patients nor their family members make such a request, but physicians simply presume that providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation comports with the patient...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-03-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Emergency Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12245-019-0225-z |