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From: Attitudes and behaviors of Japanese physicians concerning withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment for end-of-life patients: results from an Internet survey

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Physicians' perceptions toward continuation of tube feeding and attachment of a respirator for seriously ill patients. Toward the questions asking about continuation of tube feeding and about attachment of a respirator when a persistent coma elderly patient by stroke in the scenario has severe pneumonia, three of four physicians answered that attachment of a respirator would be placed as "life-sustaining treatment" while about a half of the physicians answered that continuation of tube feeding is placed as "life-sustaining treatment."

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