End-of-life perceptions among physicians in intensive care units managed by anesthesiologists in Germany: a survey about structure, current implementation and deficits.

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Published in BMC Anesthesiol on July 11, 2017

Authors

Manfred Weiss1, Andrej Michalsen2, Anke Toenjes3, Franz Porzsolt4, Thomas Bein5, Marc Theisen6, Alexander Brinkmann7, Heinrich Groesdonk8, Christian Putensen9, Friedhelm Bach10, Dietrich Henzler11, On behalf on the Working Group Epidemiology and Ethics of the German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI)

Author Affiliations

1: Clinic of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Medical School, Alber-Einstein-Allee 23, 89081, Ulm, Germany. manfred.weiss@uni-ulm.de.
2: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Tettnang Hospital, Tettnang, Germany.
3: Clinic of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Medical School, Alber-Einstein-Allee 23, 89081, Ulm, Germany.
4: Institute of Clinical Economics, Health Care Research at the Hospital of General and Visceral Surgery University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
5: Department of Anaesthesia, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
6: Palliative Care Einheit, Anästhesie, operative Intensivmedizin, Schmerztherapie, Raphaelsklinik GmbH, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany.
7: Klinik für Anästhesie, operative Intensivmedizin und spezielle Schmerztherapie, Klinikum Heidenheim, Heidenheim, Germany.
8: Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg/Saar, Germany.
9: Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
10: Klinik für Anästhesiologie, Intensiv-, Transfusions-, Notfallmedizin und Schmerztherapie (AINS), Ev. Krankenhaus Bielefeld, Akad. Lehrkrankenhaus der WWU Münster, Bielefeld, Germany.
11: Universitätsklinik für Anästhesiologie, op. Intensivmedizin, Rettungsmedizin, Schmerztherapie der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Klinikum Herford, Herford, Germany.

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