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Medical futility [PDF]

Clinical Cardiology, 2000
W D, Doty, R M, Walker
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Nurses’ perception of futile care: A narrative review [PDF]

Journal of Nursing Advances in Clinical Sciences
The continuous medical and health sciences advancement has significantly increased patient survival rates. However, prolonging life without improving its quality in terminally ill patients has become a challenging issue for care providers, particularly ...
Amir Rezaie, Fatemeh Molayi, Maryam Sadat Shaafi, Mojtaba Ghanbari Ghalesar   +3 more
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Frequency of Medical Futility and its Costs in Deceased Neonates with a Probable Diagnosis of Inherited Metabolic Disorder in Children’s Medical Center, Iran

Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, 2022
Background and purpose: Futile medical care is referred to any medical intervention or activity that bring no benefit to patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of futile treatment and its cost in neonates with a probable diagnosis ...
Mahshid Darabi, Leila Shahbaznejad, Mansure Madani, Maliheh Kadivar   +3 more
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Can the Philanthropic Imperative Enhance International Health Care?

, 2018
Elsewhere I have argued that, historically, the public and private funding of health care has been fueled primarily by four mixed motives, namely, the redemptive, the utilitarian, the prudential, and the charitable motives.
Carrick, Paul
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Morte e Morrer em Tempos de COVID-19

Clinical and Biomedical Research, 2021
A pandemia da COVID-19 está tendo impactos em toda a sociedade humana. Muitas questões antes abordadas no plano individual pela Bioética agora tem o desafio de ter o seu enfoque ampliado para toda a sociedade.
José Roberto Goldim, Marcia Santana Fernandes   +1 more
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Current Literature [PDF]

, 1993
Material appearing below is thought to be of particular interest to Linacre Quarterly readers because of its moral, religious, or philosophic content. The medical literature constitutes the primary, but not the sole source of such material.
Catholic Physicians\u27 Guild
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Ventilação mecânica e obstinação terapêutica ou distanásia, a dialéctica da alta tecnologia em medicina intensiva Mechanical ventilation and medical futility or dysthanasia, the dialectic of high technology in intensive medicine

Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia, 2006
Distanásia ou qualquer um dos seus sinónimos é uma consequência do excesso terapêutico em relação ao prognóstico esperado. A obstinação terapêutica é um dos dilemas éticos mais angustiantes no quotidiano de medicina intensiva, apesar de a sua apreciação ...
Filipe Monteiro
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An Interprofessional Interpretation of Ontario’s CPSO End-of-Life Policy

Canadian Journal of Bioethics
In the acute care setting, we often ask families to make challenging decisions regarding their loved ones’ preferences and choices for end of life care when these individuals can no longer make those decisions themselves.
Michael Sklar, Quinn Walker, Ellen Lewis, Karen Born, Courtney Sas   +4 more
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gsbDesign: An R Package for Evaluating the Operating Characteristics of a Group Sequential Bayesian Design

Journal of Statistical Software, 2016
The R package gsbDesign provides functions to evaluate the operating characteristics of Bayesian group sequential clinical trial designs. More specifically, we consider clinical trials with interim analyses, which compare a treatment with a control, and ...
Florian Gerber, Thomas Gsponer
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Book Reviews: Practicing Medicine and Ethics: Integrating Wisdom, Conscience, and Goals of Care [PDF]

, 2017
Book review: - Practicing Medicine and Ethics: Integrating Wisom, Conscience, and Goals of Care, Lauris Christopher Kaldjian. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Best, Megan
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