Citation

Creutzfeldt CJ, Longstreth WT, Holloway RG. BMJ 2015; 351: h3904.

Affiliation

Department of Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA Department of Medicine, Division of Palliative Care, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/bmj.h3904

PMID

26251409

Abstract

Illness trajectories depicting how function declines to death with certain diseases, such as cancer, can help with palliative care. Creutzfeldt and colleagues propose a fourth trajectory is needed for patients with severe acute brain injury to improve decision making and standards of care...

Language: en