A watchdog group has said that patients in the United Kingdom with learning disabilities who contracted the coronavirus were given unnecessary “do not resuscitate” orders. Mencap, a watchdog group aimed at helping those with learning disabilities, has said they received multiple reports...
Process of care and mortality of stroke patients with and without a do not resuscitate order in the West Midlands, UK. Int J Qual Health Care. 2006;18:102-106.Mohammed MA, Mant J, Bentham L, Stevens A, Hussain S. Process of care and mortality of stroke patients with and without a ...
Examples are the provision of rele- vant information, attempts to improve communication between parties, dealing with emotional discomfort or raising discussions about do-not-resuscitate orders [43]. If these or comparable interventions on the side of the clinical ethicist are not perceived to be ...
178 completed forms were received (response rate 70.9%). One third of respondents reported the presence of a resuscitation policy on their ward, although no official policy existed in the hospital. 91% of nurses would resuscitate by default if no decision on DNAR had been made. Most believed...