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Abstract
Care provided patients requiring extraordinary therapeutic measures in order to sustain and prolong life.
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7 entry terms
- Prolongation of Life
- Care, Life Support
- Life Prolongation
- Extraordinary Treatment
- Extraordinary Treatments
- Treatment, Extraordinary
- Treatments, Extraordinary
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, psychology, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
extraordinary measures in patient care: do not confuse with LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS which is non-med
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- Ethics, Medical (1966-1977)
- Life Expectancy (1966-1977)
- Longevity (1966-1977)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Life Support Care. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008020. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008020
- Life Support Care. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_support
- Life Support Care. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2624498