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1997
This book surveys the clinical, ethical, religious, legal, economic and personal dimensions of decision making in situations when the choice is between extending costly medical treatment of uncertain effectiveness, or terminating treatment thereby ending the patient's life.
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This book surveys the clinical, ethical, religious, legal, economic and personal dimensions of decision making in situations when the choice is between extending costly medical treatment of uncertain effectiveness, or terminating treatment thereby ending the patient's life.
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Sabr and Shukr: doing justice to medical futility
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2023Sara Riaz
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Handling Cases of ‘Medical Futility’
HEC Forum, 2011Medical futility is commonly understood as treatment that would not provide for any meaningful benefit for the patient. While the medical facts will help to determine what is medically appropriate, it is often difficult for patients, families, surrogate decision-makers and healthcare providers to navigate these difficult situations. Often communication
Colleen M, Gallagher, Ryan F, Holmes
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Image: the Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 1995
Defining medical futility is central to the efforts of clinicians and ethicists who seek to identify the limits of patient autonomy. This article is a critique of current efforts to define and then use policies of medical futility to justify refusing requests for treatment and care that have no perceived medical benefit.
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Defining medical futility is central to the efforts of clinicians and ethicists who seek to identify the limits of patient autonomy. This article is a critique of current efforts to define and then use policies of medical futility to justify refusing requests for treatment and care that have no perceived medical benefit.
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Medical Futility: When Further Therapy Is Hopeless
Bioethical Controversies in Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, 2020C. Mavroudis, Allison Siegel
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Tackling Medical Futility in Texas
New England Journal of Medicine, 2007For several weeks this spring, national attention was focused on a mother's struggle to prevent the Children's Hospital of Austin from withdrawing life support from her infant son, Emilio Gonzales. The Gonzales case is the most recent in a series of famous “futility” cases. Dr. Robert Truog discusses futility cases and The Texas Advance Directives Act.
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The Ethics of Medical Futility
Critical Care Clinics, 1993This article traces the evolution of the debate between the futility of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the patient's right to consent, analyzing its origins in the 1970s and examining new policies recommended by the American Medical Association in 1991.
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Hu li za zhi The journal of nursing, 2014
Although able to extend the life of some critical patients, advanced medical technology is limited in terms of scope and extent of effectiveness. Some patients die despite the best efforts of medical teams. Medical futility describes treatments that are both extremely unlikely to benefit a patient and costly to provide.
Ming-Yi, Hsu, Lien-Ying, Chiang
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Although able to extend the life of some critical patients, advanced medical technology is limited in terms of scope and extent of effectiveness. Some patients die despite the best efforts of medical teams. Medical futility describes treatments that are both extremely unlikely to benefit a patient and costly to provide.
Ming-Yi, Hsu, Lien-Ying, Chiang
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