Withholding care in intracerebral hemorrhage: realistic compassion or self-fulfilling prophecy?

Neurology. 2007 May 15;68(20):1647-8. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000266630.02350.69.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Age Factors
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Attitude of Health Personnel
  • Brain Damage, Chronic / prevention & control
  • Brain Damage, Chronic / psychology
  • Cerebral Hemorrhage / complications
  • Cerebral Hemorrhage / mortality*
  • Cerebral Hemorrhage / psychology
  • Coma / etiology
  • Comorbidity
  • Empathy*
  • Family
  • Female
  • Hematoma / etiology
  • Hospitals, Community / statistics & numerical data
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Nursing Homes
  • Prognosis
  • Resuscitation Orders* / ethics
  • Risk
  • Terminal Care
  • Time Factors
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Withholding Treatment* / ethics
  • Withholding Treatment* / statistics & numerical data