Awareness and use of recommendations for withholding and withdrawing therapy in Austrian intensive care units.
Wien Med Wochenschr
; 161(3-4): 99-102, 2011 Feb.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-20865339
ABSTRACT
During the past decade there has been growing interest in the development of practice guidelines on medical end-of-life decisions. A questionnaire about awareness and use of end-of-life decision guidelines was applied by e-mail in a cross-sectional survey among 1494 attendants of Austrian intensive care medicine conferences held in 2008. Of a total of 246 evaluable responses from physicians, only 140 said to have been aware of national end-of-life decision-making guidelines (56.9%). Those who read the recommendations at least in part believe to have derived benefit from the recommendations. Even though the response rate was low, Austrian intensive care medicine societies should be encouraged to better disseminate end-of-life decision guidelines among caregivers.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Conscientização
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Medicina Baseada em Evidências
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Suspensão de Tratamento
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Unidades de Terapia Intensiva
Tipo de estudo:
Guideline
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Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Wien Med Wochenschr
Assunto da revista:
MEDICINA
Ano de publicação:
2011
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Itália