Journal article
Variability in physicians' decisions on caring for chronically ill elderly patients: an international study.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To determine what treatment decisions physicians will make when faced with an incompetent elderly patient with life-threatening gastrointestinal bleeding and to identify the factors that affect their decisions.
DESIGN: Survey.
Authors
Alemayehu E; Molloy DW; Guyatt GH; Singer J; Penington G; Basile J; Eisemann M; Finucane P; McMurdo ME; Powell C
Journal
Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 144, No. 9, pp. 1133–1138
Publication Date
May 1, 1991
ISSN
0820-3946