Ethical issues in aging and renal disease.
作者： Susie Q. Lew , Felicia Cohn , Lewis M. Cohen , Paul L. Kimmel
DOI: 10.1016/S1073-4449(00)70007-0
关键词: Renal replacement therapy 、 Health care rationing 、 Intensive care medicine 、 Quality of life 、 Health care 、 Incidence (epidemiology) 、 Life Support Care 、 Ethical issues 、 Disease 、 Medicine
摘要: The incidence of elderly patients reaching end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and requiring renalreplacement is increasing. Better medical care helping live longer but, at the same time, raising ethical questions. Treatment decisions for ESRD present a forum consideration questions surrounding issues scarce health resource allocation withholding or withdrawal life-sustaining treatment. As background in patients, quality life they experience what may expect as death approaches also are discussed.
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