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Withdrawing or withholding treatments in health care rationing: an interview study on ethical views and implications [PDF]

BMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background When rationing health care, a commonly held view among ethicists is that there is no ethical difference between withdrawing or withholding medical treatments.
Liam Strand, Lars Sandman, Gustav Tinghög, Ann-Charlotte Nedlund   +3 more
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Predictors and outcomes of withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments in intensive care units in Singapore: a multicentre observational study [PDF]

Journal of Intensive Care
Background Clinical practice guidelines on limitation of life-sustaining treatments (LST) in the intensive care unit (ICU), in the form of withholding or withdrawal of LST, state that there is no ethical difference between the two.
Clare Fong, Wern Lunn Kueh, Sennen Jin Wen Lew, Benjamin Choon Heng Ho, Yu-Lin Wong, Yie Hui Lau, Yew Woon Chia, Hui Ling Tan, Ying Hao Christopher Seet, Wen Ting Siow, Graeme MacLaren, Rohit Agrawal, Tian Jin Lim, Shir Lynn Lim, Toon Wei Lim, Vui Kian Ho, Chai Rick Soh, Duu Wen Sewa, Chian Min Loo, Faheem Ahmed Khan, Chee Keat Tan, Roshni Sadashiv Gokhale, Chuin Siau, Noelle Louise Siew Hua Lim, Chik-Foo Yim, Jonathen Venkatachalam, Kumaresh Venkatesan, Naville Chi Hock Chia, Mei Fong Liew, Guihong Li, Li Li, Su Mon Myat, Zena Zena, Shuling Zhuo, Ling Ling Yueh, Caroline Shu Fang Tan, Jing Ma, Siew Lian Yeo, Yiong Huak Chan, Jason Phua, for SICM-NICER group   +40 more
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Withholding treatment and intellectual disability: Second survey on end-of-life decisions in Switzerland [PDF]

SAGE Open Medicine, 2016
Background: As people live longer, they are more likely to die over a prolonged period from incurable, chronic illnesses that occur more frequently in old age. Therefore, people will experience an increase in end-of-life discussions and decisions.
Monika T Wicki
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Is withdrawing treatment really more problematic than withholding treatment? [PDF]

J Med Ethics, 2021
Cameron J, Savulescu J, Wilkinson D.
europepmc   +3 more sources

Changes in the incidence of cardiopulmonary resuscitation before and after implementation of the Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Act [PDF]

Acute and Critical Care, 2022
Background The Life-Sustaining Treatment (LST) Decisions Act allows withholding and withdrawal of LST, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Hyunjae Im, Hyun Woo Choe, Seung-Young Oh, Ho Geol Ryu, Hannah Lee   +4 more
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Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Orders from an Islamic Perspective

Darulfunun Ilahiyat, 2022
In modern medicine and technologies, it is commonly accepted and recognized by the laws in western countries that patients have decision-making rights regarding the end of their lives.
Hatice Kübra Memiş
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Similarities and Differences Between the Jewish, Catholic and Islamic Religious Communities in Ethical Dilemmas at the End of Life in Palliative Care [PDF]

Edinost in Dialog, 2022
Ethical dilemmas in nursing are most pronounced in palliative and end-of-life care, where we meet the most demanding and complex needs of nursing care.
Rok Mihelič, Edvard Jakšič, Erika Zelko   +2 more
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A REVIEW ON DECISION PROTOCOL AND FATWA IN MALAYSIA DISCUSSING ISSUE OF WITHHOLDING AND WITHDRAWAL OF LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT IN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

Malaysian Journal of Syariah and Law, 2021
Withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments is one of the hot topics discussing in intensive care unit as most of the death occurs as a result of it.
Muhamad Rafiqi Hehsan, Wan Fadzlina Wan Muhd Shukeri   +1 more
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Withholding of Life-Sustaining Treatment and Mortality in ICU Patients with Severe Acute COPD Exacerbations: A Retrospective French Cohort. [PDF]

Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis
Puechoultres P, Jamme M, Abi-Abdallah G, Diop S, Legriel S, Ferré A.   +5 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Clinical Factors Influencing End-of-Life Care in a Chinese Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Retrospective, post-hoc Study

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2021
Objective: End-of-life(EOL) care decision-making for infants and children is a painful experience. The study aimed to explore the clinical factors influencing the EOL care to withhold/withdraw life-sustaining treatment (WLST) in Chinese pediatric ...
Yueniu Zhu, Xiaodong Zhu, Lili Xu, Mengyan Deng   +3 more
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