Isr Med Assoc J
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Comparative Study
Forgoing life-sustaining treatments: comparison of attitudes between Israeli and North American intensive care healthcare professionals.
Physicians' decisions regarding provision of life-sustaining treatment may be influenced considerably by non-medical variables. ⋯ Critical care physicians in Israel place similar emphasis on the value of life as their U.S. counterparts and assign DNR orders with an incidence equaling that of the U.S. They differ from their U.S. counterparts in that they confer less significance to the will of the patient, and do not consult as much with families of patients regarding DNR orders.