Overcoming obstacles to hospice care: an ethical examination of inertia and inaction.
Daugherty
Christopher K
CK
Department of Medicine, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, the Cancer Research Center at the University of Chicago, IL, USA. cdaugher@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
Steensma
David P
DP
D017051:Hospice Care / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011379:Prognosis; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D014481:United States