Journal article
Factors affecting physicians' decisions on caring for an incompetent elderly patient: an international study.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To determine what treatment decisions physicians will make when faced with a hypothetical incompetent elderly patient with life-threatening gastrointestinal bleeding and to examine the relative importance of physician characteristics and factors (legal and ethical concerns, hospital costs, level of dementia, patient's age, physician's religion, patient's wishes and family's wishes) in making those decisions.
DESIGN: Survey.
Authors
Molloy DW; Guyatt GH; Alemayehu E; McIlroy W; Willan A; Eisemann M; Abraham G; Basile J; Penington G; McMurdo ME
Journal
Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 145, No. 8, pp. 947–952
Publication Date
October 15, 1991
ISSN
0820-3946