Perspectives of healthcare providers on withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment and advanced directives for unresponsive wakefulness syndrome in China

• Published in: Frontiers in neurology Vol. 15; p. 1358747
• Main Authors: Li, Meiqi, Dai, Siyu, Wang, Le, Di, Haibo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 14.08.2024
• Subjects: advanced directives; disorders of consciousness; ethics; Neurology; unresponsive wakefulness syndrome; withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment; disorders of consciousness; unresponsive wakefulness syndrome; advanced directives; ethics; withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment

We performed the current research to describe healthcare providers' perspectives toward withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment (WLST) and advanced directive (AD) of patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) and to identify influencing factors of their perspectives. Healthcare provi...