Fear of Death and Clinical Decision-Making

February 10, 2007

Note the advance Web publication of an article in Archives of Diseases of Childhood. The paper is entitled “Relationship of neonatologists’ end of life decisions to their personal fear of death.”

According to a new study, docs who fear their own death are significantly more likely to hasten the death of newborn infants in whom further treatment is futile. The research was performed in Australia and New Zealand, and is based on a survey of 138 neonatologists.

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