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Decisions About Life-Sustaining Treatment
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1995Background: Despite the growing availability of advance directives, most patients in the intensive care unit lack written directives, and, therefore, consultation with families about treatment decisions remains the rule. In the context of decision making about withdrawing life-sustaining treatments, we investigated which physician and nurse behaviors ...
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Life-sustaining treatments during terminal illness
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 1993To determine patient characteristics associated with the desire for life-sustaining treatments in the event of terminal illness.In-person survey from October 1986 to June 1988.13 internal medicine and family practices in North Carolina.2,536 patients (46% of those eligible) aged 65 years and older who were continuing care patients of participating ...
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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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Terminating Life-Sustaining Treatment of the Demented
The Hastings Center Report, 1995Some subjects in ethics elicit a far greater degree of emotional discomfort than others. It is not the delicacy or complexity of the subject as such that seems to be the problem. It is, instead a tacit recognition that, try as we might, it is especially hard to disentangle our personal response from the issues themselves.
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Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions
Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2001Perla Werner, Sara Carmel
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Refusing Life-Sustaining Treatment
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Forgoing Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment (DRAFT)
2018Forgoing life sustaining medical treatment takes on additional complexities depending on the mode of therapy forgone, which often varies in clinical practice. Compassionate extubation of the paralyzed or alert patient requires more in-depth ethical analysis.
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Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment
2018Population-based studies have demonstrated that a significant and increasing proportion of deaths is preceded by a decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment, defined as a treatment without which life would, with a very high probability, end within a foreseeable period.
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