An empirical analysis of the decision-making of limiting life-sustaining treatment for patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Hong Kong, China

Keyphrases

• Hong Kong Chinese 100%
• Quality of Life 100%
• Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 100%
• Life-sustaining Treatment 100%
• Mechanical Ventilation 66%
• Shared Decision Making 66%
• Patient's Family 66%
• Hong Kong 33%
• Physiological Parameters 33%
• Patient Participation 33%
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patient 33%
• Medical Department 33%
• Chronic Illness 33%
• Making-do 33%
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation 33%
• Family Physicians 33%
• Prognostic Awareness 33%
• Life-sustaining Treatment Decisions 33%
• Parameter Performance 33%
• Mental Incapacity 33%
• Life Factor 33%
• Performance Status 33%
• Decision Framework 33%
• Concomitant Diseases 33%
• Intubation 33%
• Therapeutic Regimen 33%
• Medical Service Utilization 33%
• Patient-initiated 33%
• Decision Pattern 33%
• Major Themes 33%
• Patient's Family Member 33%
• Disease Burden 33%
• Diseases Therapeutic 33%
• Existential Concerns 33%

Medicine and Dentistry

• Decision Making 100%
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 100%
• Life Sustaining Treatment 100%
• Artificial Respiration 33%
• Shared Decision Making 33%
• Quality of Life 33%
• Diseases 33%
• Chronic Disease 16%
• Awareness 16%
• Patient Participation 16%
• Intubation 16%
• Resuscitation 16%