Are physicians on the same page about do-not-resuscitate? To examine individual physicians' influence on do-not-resuscitate decision-making: a retrospective and observational study.

Yen-Yuan ChenMelany SuShu-Chien HuangTzong-Shinn ChuMing-Tsan LinYu-Chun ChiuKuan-Han Lin

Published in: BMC medical ethics (2019)

Our study reported that individual attending physicians had influence on patients'/surrogates' do-not-resuscitate decision-making. Future studies may be focused on examining the reasons associated with the difference of each individual physician in the likelihood of signing a do-not-resuscitate order.

Keyphrases

primary care
decision making
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
emergency department
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors
patient reported outcomes
current status