Lost in translation: examining patient and physician perceptions of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator deactivation discussions

Circ Heart Fail. 2012 Sep 1;5(5):660-6. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.112.967497.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Attitude of Health Personnel*
  • Communication
  • Comprehension
  • Death, Sudden, Cardiac / prevention & control
  • Defibrillators, Implantable / adverse effects
  • Defibrillators, Implantable / ethics
  • Defibrillators, Implantable / psychology*
  • Electric Countershock / adverse effects
  • Electric Countershock / ethics
  • Electric Countershock / instrumentation
  • Electric Countershock / psychology*
  • Equipment Failure
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice*
  • Heart Failure / mortality
  • Heart Failure / psychology
  • Heart Failure / therapy*
  • Humans
  • Palliative Care / psychology
  • Patient Education as Topic
  • Patients / psychology*
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • Physicians / ethics
  • Physicians / psychology*
  • Professional-Family Relations
  • Quality of Life
  • Terminal Care / psychology
  • Withholding Treatment* / ethics
  • Withholding Treatment* / legislation & jurisprudence