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| Title |
Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapy in a Moroccan Emergency Department: An observational study
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Emergency Medicine, August 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-227x-11-12 |
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| Authors |
Nada Damghi, Jihane Belayachi, Badria Aggoug, Tarek Dendane, Khalid Abidi, Naoufel Madani, Aicha Zekraoui, Abdellatif Benchekroun Belabes, Amine Ali Zeggwagh, Redouane Abouqal |
| Abstract |
Withdrawing and withholding life-support therapy (WH/WD) are undeniably integrated parts of medical activity. However, Emergency Department (ED) might not be the most appropriate place to give end-of life (EOL) care; the legal aspects and practices of the EOL care in emergency rooms are rarely mentioned in the medical literature and should be studied. The aims of this study were to assess frequency of situations where life-support therapies were withheld or withdrawn and modalities for implement of these decisions. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 95 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 94 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 13 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 9% |
| Researcher | 8 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 7% |
| Other | 24 | 25% |
| Unknown | 23 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 40 | 42% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 8% |
| Psychology | 5 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 9 | 9% |
| Unknown | 27 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 August 2011.
All research outputs
#15,687,628
of 23,312,088 outputs
Outputs from BMC Emergency Medicine
#498
of 770 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#86,635
of 122,044 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Emergency Medicine
#3
of 5 outputs
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