Surgical Gatekeeping - Modifiable Risk Factors and Ethical Decision Making

N Engl J Med. 2018 Jul 26;379(4):389-394. doi: 10.1056/NEJMms1802079.

Authors

Ira L Leeds¹, David T Efron¹, Lisa S Lehmann¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (I.L.L., D.T.E.); the National Center for Ethics in Health Care, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC (L.S.L.); and Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston (L.S.L.).

PMID: 30044939
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMms1802079

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Decision Making / ethics*
Ethics, Medical*
Female
Gatekeeping / ethics
Health Care Rationing / ethics
Hernia, Ventral / diagnostic imaging
Hernia, Ventral / surgery
Humans
Middle Aged
Refusal to Treat / ethics*
Risk Factors
Surgeons / ethics*
Treatment Outcome
United States