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Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1992Life is a journey, and the end of the journey has, for many people, become more difficult. Clinical conditions that just 25 years ago would have signified imminent death now prompt "life-sustaining treatment." On occasion, such treatment permits dramatic recovery.
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Economic aspects in prolonged life sustainable treatments
NeuroRehabilitation, 2005In a context of limited resources and continuous increase of healthcare expenditures, policy makers need to carefully evaluate the economic impact of their decisions. In the last decade economists have been particularly productive in offering to the decision makers a set of tools able to compare costs and benefits of each single medical procedure.
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Principles and practice of withdrawing life-sustaining treatments
Critical Care Clinics, 2004The clinician's responsibility to the patient does not end with a decision to limit medical treatment, but continues through the dying process. Every effort should be made to ensure that withdrawing life support occurs with the same quality and attention to detail as is routinely provided when life support is initiated.
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Decisions regarding forgoing life-sustaining treatments
Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, 2017Decisions to forego life-sustaining treatments are complex, and disagreements between physicians and patients occur. This review discusses recent findings regarding what factors influence physicians and patients or their surrogates in these decisions and considers whether futility arguments regarding life-sustaining treatments should be abandoned ...
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Life‐Sustaining Treatment Decision in Palliative Care Based on Electronic Health Records Analysis
Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2023Sue Kim, Arum Lim, Hyoeun Jang
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Refusing Life-Sustaining Treatment
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 1988openaire +2 more sources
Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment
Nursing Management (Springhouse), 1983openaire +2 more sources
Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment
Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, 2015Katherine A. Hinderer +2 more
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