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Is withdrawing treatment really more problematic than withholding treatment? [PDF]
J Med Ethics, 2021 There is a concern that as a result of COVID-19 there will be a shortage of ventilators for patients requiring respiratory support. This concern has resulted in significant debate about whether it is appropriate to withdraw ventilation from one patient ...
Cameron J, Savulescu J, Wilkinson D.
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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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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 +3 more
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BMC Medical Ethics, 2022 Background There has been no in-depth research of public attitudes on withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide and physician assisted suicide in Croatia.
Ana Borovecki +9 more
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A costly separation between withdrawing and withholding treatment in intensive care. [PDF]
Bioethics, 2014 Ethical analyses, professional guidelines and legal decisions support the equivalence thesis for life-sustaining treatment: if it is ethical to withhold treatment, it would be ethical to withdraw the same treatment.
Wilkinson D, Savulescu J.
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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 +1 more
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Withdrawing or Withholding Treatment
International Journal of Human and Health Sciences (IJHHS), 2018 Muslims believe that all healing comes from God, so they have the obligation to search out medical care and right to receive appropriate medical treatment. Islam considers disease as a natural phenomenon and a type of tribulation that expiates sin. Unfortunately many elder patients with chronic illness spend their last few weeks or months in hospitals.
Albar Mohammed Ali, Chamsi Pasha Hassan
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Overriding Parental Decision to Withhold Treatment [PDF]
AMA Journal of Ethics, 2003 Physicians are obligated in many jurisdictions to perform life-sustaining treatments on premature infants with serious developmental or physical impairments, even if it goes against the parents' wishes. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.
Michael Woods
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Withholding treatment: what, whom and why? [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2017 When is it permissible for medical professionals to withhold a medical intervention? Several considerations might immediately be deemed morally relevant to such a decision. Does the medical professional believe that the intervention is in the patient's best interests? Is the patient competent, and has she refused to consent to the intervention?
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