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The medical futility experience of nursing professionals in Greece [PDF]
BMC Nursing, 2021 Background Providing futile medical care is an ever-timely ethical problem in clinical practice. While nursing personnel are very closely involved in providing direct care to patients nearing the end of life, their role in end-of-life decision-making ...
Polychronis Voultsos +2 more
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Analiza i Egzystencja, 2021 This article presents the current discussion around the terms “medical futility” and “persistent therapy” and their definitions. This discussion is based on the dis-pute of whether the term “persistent therapy” should be rejected and replaced with the ...
Marcin Ferdynus
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Indonesian Comparative Law Review, 2020 Medical futility has always been a huge blow to the medical world. While medical practitioners live to save others’ lives, some cases may not be as kind to their honorable intentions.
Syaheera Aina Baharudin
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Medical futility treatment in intensive care units [PDF]
Acta Medica Academica, 2016 Objective. To investigate cases of potential medical futility treatment in intensive care unit (ICU). Materials and Methods. Retrospective review of 1567 charts of patients treated during the three-year period (2012 - 2014) in the ICU of the University ...
Marko Jukić +3 more
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Medical futility and its challenges: a review study [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2016 Concerns over limited medical equipment and resources, particularly in intensive care units (ICUs), have raised the issue of medical futility. Medical futility draws a contrast between physician’s authority and patients’ autonomy and it is one of the ...
Maryam Aghabarary, Nahid Dehghan Nayeri
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The determination of quality of life and medical futility in disorders of consciousness: reinterpreting the moral code of Islam. [PDF]
Am J Bioeth, 2015 The Islamic moral code originates from two primary sources: the Quran and the Sunnah (Rady and Verheijde 2014a). Regardless of time and place, this code provides practical and comprehensive guidance on behavioral aspects in health and illness. In Western
Rady MY, Verheijde JL.
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Medical Futility & Parental “Rights”
Voices in Bioethics, 2017 Decisions regarding withholding and withdrawing care raise some of the most difficult, yet classic, bioethical questions. The current events related to Charlie Gard, an infant and native of the United Kingdom, born with a rare and devastating disease ...
Alex Fleming
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Why reflexivity matters in the literature of suffering, death, and dying in eating disorders [PDF]
Journal of Eating DisordersCurrent debates on medical aid in dying and treatment futility in longstanding eating disorders emphasize diagnostic frameworks, ethical principles, and legal statutes.
Scout Silverstein
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J Med Internet Res, 2018 Background For many elderly patients, a disproportionate amount of health care resources and expenditures is spent during the last year of life, despite the discomfort and reduced quality of life associated with many aggressive medical approaches ...
Guo Y +20 more
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PLoS ONEBackgroundTranscatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) procedures are rapidly expanding, necessitating a more extensive stratification of patients with aortic stenosis.
Charlie Ferry +3 more
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