Treatment decisions for terminally ill patients: physicians' legal defensiveness and knowledge of medical law.
D001290:Attitude; D003625:Data Collection; D003657:Decision Making; D005066:Euthanasia, Passive; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005190:Family; D033161:Government Regulation; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D016365:Liability, Legal; D008020:Life Support Care; D008318:Malpractice; D008511:Medicine; D016743:Mental Competency; D010820:Physicians; D012306:Risk; D012922:Social Change; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D013038:Specialization; D013219:State Government; D013727:Terminal Care; D019452:Terminally Ill; D013781:Texas; D020458:Third-Party Consent; D016312:Treatment Refusal; D028761:Withholding Treatment
Death and Euthanasia; Empirical Approach; Legal Approach; University of Texas Health Science System