Journal article
"I don't need my patients' opinion to withdraw treatment": patient preferences at the end-of-life and physician attitudes towards advance directives in England and France.
- Abstract:
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This paper presents the results of a qualitative interview study exploring English and French physicians' moral perspectives and attitudes towards end-of-life decisions when patients lack capacity to make decisions for themselves. The paper aims to examine the importance physicians from different contexts accord to patient preferences and to explore the (potential) role of advance directives (ADs) in each context. The interviews focus on (1) problems that emerge when deciding to withdraw/-hol...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
Ethox Centre, Oxford
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Wellcome Trust
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Springer Netherlands Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Medicine, health care, and philosophy Journal website
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 425-435
- Publication date:
- 2014-08-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1572-8633
- ISSN:
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1386-7423
- Source identifiers:
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459146
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:459146
- Deposit date:
- 2014-05-18
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Horn, R
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2014. This article is distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution,
and reproduction in any medium, provided the original
author(s) and the source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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