Advanced medical technology: finding the answers.
Nurses are increasingly questioning the decisions on the use and overuse of advanced medical technology, particularly when it concerns the elderly, psychiatric patients and children. Below, some of the troubling questions being asked and where nurses can find advice.
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D003657:Decision Making; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D015316:Genetic Therapy; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000639:trends*; D009726:Nurses; D011788:Quality of Life