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Nurse and physician preferences for end-of-life care for trauma patients.

Lenworth M Jacobs, Karyl J Burns, and Barbara Bennett Jacobs

J Trauma 69(6):1567-73 (2010) PMID 21150531

End-of-life care for trauma patients requires unique practice guidelines because it is fraught with difficulties not encountered in end-of-life care for terminally ill patients. The purpose of this project was to analyze survey information from nurses and physicians regarding preferences for end-of-life care in trauma that would inform best-practice guidelines.

DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181f65921
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