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Managing Patients Who Refuse Blood Transfusions: An Ethical Dilemma

dc.creatorFinfer, Simonen
dc.creatorHowell, Simonen
dc.creatorMiller, Jeanen
dc.creatorWillett, Keithen
dc.creatorWilson-MacDonald, Jamesen
dc.creatorWilson, David H.en
dc.creatorWatt, Jamesen
dc.creatorJones, Michael A.en
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-05T18:53:50Zen
dc.date.available2015-05-05T18:53:50Zen
dc.date.created1994-05-28en
dc.date.issued1994-05-28en
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationBMJ (British Medical Journal). 1994 May 28; 308(6941): 1423-1426.en
dc.identifier.issn0959-8138en
dc.identifier.urihttp://worldcatlibraries.org/registry/gateway?version=1.0&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&atitle=Managing+Patients+Who+Refuse+Blood+Transfusions:+an+Ethical+Dilemma.++&title=BMJ+&volume=308&issue=6941&pages=1423-1426&date=1994&au=Finfer,+Simonen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10822/746567en
dc.description.abstractPatients who refuse blood transfusions after severe blood loss have a poor prognosis but survival is possible. Below Simon Finfer and colleagues describe how they managed two patients who presented after a car crash. We asked an ethical expert, a former pathologist who is a Jehovah's Witness, and a lawyer to comment on the issues that these cases raised.en
dc.formatArticleen
dc.languageenen
dc.sourceBRL:KIE/44170en
dc.subjectAlternativesen
dc.subjectBlooden
dc.subjectBlood Transfusionsen
dc.subjectCase Studiesen
dc.subjectCompetenceen
dc.subjectDeveloping Countriesen
dc.subjectInjuriesen
dc.subjectIntensive Care Unitsen
dc.subjectJehovah's Witnessesen
dc.subjectLegal Liabilityen
dc.subjectLegal Obligationsen
dc.subjectLiabilityen
dc.subjectMoral Obligationsen
dc.subjectMortalityen
dc.subjectPatient Careen
dc.subjectPatientsen
dc.subjectPhysiciansen
dc.subjectPrognosisen
dc.subjectReligionen
dc.subjectResource Allocationen
dc.subjectTreatment Refusalen
dc.titleManaging Patients Who Refuse Blood Transfusions: An Ethical Dilemmaen
dc.provenanceDigital citation created by the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature at Georgetown University for the BIOETHICSLINE database, part of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics' Bioethics Information Retrieval Project funded by the United States National Library of Medicine.en
dc.provenanceDigital citation migrated from OpenText LiveLink Discovery Server database named NBIO hosted by the Bioethics Research Library to the DSpace collection BioethicsLine hosted by Georgetown University.en


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