The ethical decisions UK doctors make regarding advanced cancer patients at the end of life--the perceived (in) appropriateness of anticoagulation for venous thromboembolism: a qualitative study.

Sheard, L, Prout, H, Dowding, D et al. (4 more authors) (2012) The ethical decisions UK doctors make regarding advanced cancer patients at the end of life--the perceived (in) appropriateness of anticoagulation for venous thromboembolism: a qualitative study. BMC Medical Ethics, 13. 22 - ? . ISSN 1472-6939

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  • Sheard, L
  • Prout, H
  • Dowding, D
  • Noble, S
  • Watt, I
  • Maraveyas, A
  • Johnson, M
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: © 2012 Sheard et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Adult, Aged, Anticoagulants, Choice Behavior, Decision Making, Drug Prescriptions, Ethics, Medical, Female, General Practice, Great Britain, Heparin, Low-Molecular-Weight, Hospice Care, Humans, Male, Medical Oncology, Middle Aged, Narration, Neoplasms, Palliative Care, Physicians, Prognosis, Pulmonary Embolism, Qualitative Research, Venous Thromboembolism, Venous Thrombosis
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  • Published: September 2012
Institution: The University of Leeds, The University of York
Academic Units: The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Healthcare (Leeds)
The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Health Sciences (York)
Depositing User: Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited: 21 May 2013 09:09
Last Modified: 31 Oct 2016 03:31
Published Version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6939-13-22
Status: Published
Publisher: Biomed Central
Refereed: Yes
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6939-13-22
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