Manitoba physicians consider DNR guidelines

Prehospital DNR orders: what do physicians in Washington know?

OBJECTIVES To assess whether physicians know of Washington State's prehospital do-not-resuscitate (DNR) policy, 6 years after its implementation. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Washington State, April 2001. PARTICIPANTS Four hundred seventy-one practicing physicians. MEASUREMENTS Multivariate logistic regression was used to determine relationships between physician and practice ...

Should Physicians Consider the Environmental Effects of Prescribing Antibiotics?

Pharmaceuticals are beginning to receive attention as a source of pollution in aquatic environments. Yet the impact of physician prescription patterns on water resources is not often discussed in clinical decision making. Here, we comment on a case in which empiric antibiotic treatment might benefit a patient while simultaneously being detrimental to the aquatic environment. We first highlight ...

Disseminating Practice Guidelines to Physicians

Physicians’ Experiences of Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) Orders in Hematology and Oncology Care – A Qualitative Study

Objective: In oncology and hematology care, a patient can have such a poor prognosis that cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for cardiac arrest is not considered feasible. The responsible physician can then decide to apply a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order, meaning that neither basic (heart compressions and ventilation) nor advanced (defibrillator or medicines) CPR should be performed. Previous...

Who protects physicians and patients from guidelines?

gust 2010); its position in the guideline is very prominent [1] . The development of this new guideline must have started in close temporal relationship to dronedarone’s EU market approval in November 2009, given the usual time requirements for the completion of such work. The explicit positioning of the compound in the new guideline resulted in an increased rate of prescription. However, compl...