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Mason and McCall Smith's Law and Medical Ethics, 2019
This chapter begins with a discussion of the concept of medical futility. It examines cases dealing with selective non-treatment of the newborn and selective non-treatment in infancy. The chapter argues that while concepts such as ‘futility’ and ‘best interests’ have strong normative appeal, the search for objectivity in their application may itself be
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This chapter begins with a discussion of the concept of medical futility. It examines cases dealing with selective non-treatment of the newborn and selective non-treatment in infancy. The chapter argues that while concepts such as ‘futility’ and ‘best interests’ have strong normative appeal, the search for objectivity in their application may itself be
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Medical Futility and “Brain Death”
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2018Judgments of futility are always relative to some goal. In light of that proposition, continued treatment for those diagnosed as "brain dead" is not necessarily futile.
F. Miller
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Why the term ‘persistent therapy’ is not worse than the term ‘medical futility’
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2021The discussion around the use of the term ‘medical futility’ began in the late 1980s. The Polish Working Group on End-of-Life Ethics (PWG) joined this discussion in 2008.
M. Ferdynus
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Perspectives on the Effectiveness of a Medical Futility Policy
Journal of Clinical Ethics, 2021Background The principal aim of this study was to investigate the function and effectiveness of an institutional policy that outlines a procedure to limit medically futile interventions.
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Association of medical futility with do-not-resuscitate (DNR) code status in hospitalised patients
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2021Guidelines recommend a ‘do-not-resuscitate’ (DNR) code status for inpatients in which cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) attempts are considered futile because of low probability of survival with good neurological outcome.
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Getting The Balance Right: Medical Futility, Scientific Advancement, and the Role of Law.
Medical Law Review, 2020The concept of medical futility as an applied ethical framework has seen a rise and fall in its popularity over the last 30 years. It is a term used in relation to the assessment of a patient's health condition that is deemed untreatable, irreversible ...
N. Glover-Thomas
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Law, Medicine and Health Care, 1992
“Medical futility” may be provisionally defined as a medical conclusion that a therapy is of no value to a patient and should not be prescribed. The current debate about medical futility is one of the most important and contentious in medical ethics.
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“Medical futility” may be provisionally defined as a medical conclusion that a therapy is of no value to a patient and should not be prescribed. The current debate about medical futility is one of the most important and contentious in medical ethics.
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2013
We examine the concept of medical futility by addressing several questions. Should doctors be attempting treatments that have little likelihood of achieving the goals of medicine? What are the goals of medicine? Can we agree when medical treatment fails to achieve such goals? What should the physician do and not do under such circumstances?
Lawrence J, Schneiderman +1 more
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We examine the concept of medical futility by addressing several questions. Should doctors be attempting treatments that have little likelihood of achieving the goals of medicine? What are the goals of medicine? Can we agree when medical treatment fails to achieve such goals? What should the physician do and not do under such circumstances?
Lawrence J, Schneiderman +1 more
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