Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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    The status of the do-not-resuscitate order in Chinese clinical trial patients in a cancer centre
    with J. M. Liu, W. C. Lin, Y. M. Chen, H. W. Wu, N. S. Yao, and L. T. Chen
    Journal of Medical Ethics 25 (4): 309-314. 1999.
    OBJECTIVE: To report and analyse the pattern of end-of-life decision making for terminal Chinese cancer patients. DESIGN: Retrospective descriptive study. SETTING: A cancer clinical trials unit in a large teaching hospital. PATIENTS: From April 1992 to August 1997, 177 consecutive deaths of cancer clinical trial patients were studied. MAIN MEASUREMENT: Basic demographic data, patient status at the time of signing a DNR consent, or at the moment of returning home to die are documented, and circum…Read more