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Surgical “Buy-in”: the Contractual Relationship between Surgeons and Patients that Influences Decisions Regarding Life-Supporting Therapy

CONTEXT: There is a general consensus by intensivists and non-surgical providers that surgeons hesitate to withdraw life-sustaining therapy on their operative patients despite a patient’s or surrogate’s request to do so. OBJECTIVE: To examine the culture and practice of surgeons in order to assess a...

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Main Authors: Schwarze, Margaret L., Bradley, Ciaran T., Brasel, Karen J.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3042894/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20048678
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181cc466b
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