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Attitudes about withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and physician assisted suicide: a cross-sectional survey among the general public in Croatia

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, Marko Curkovic, Krunoslav Nikodem, Stjepan Oreskovic, Milivoj Novak, Filip Rubic, Jurica Vukovic, Diana Spoljar, Bert Gordijn, Chris Gastmans   +9 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.
Chamsi Pasha Hassan, Albar Mohammed Ali
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Withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in extremely low gestational age neonates

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2020
Objective To identify sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment (WWLST) for extremely low gestational age neonates.
April R. Dworetz, Girija Natarajan, John Langer, Kathy Kinlaw, Jennifer James, Margarita Bidegain, Abhik Das, Brenda B. Poindexter, Edward F. Bell, C. Michael Cotten, Haresh Kirpalani, Seetha Shankaran, Barbara J. Stoll   +12 more
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Efficacy and safety of withholding antimicrobial treatment in children with cancer, fever and neutropenia, with a demonstrated viral respiratory infection: a randomized clinical trial [PDF]

Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2016
Marı́a Elena Santolaya, A.M. Alvarez, Mirta Acuña, Carmen L. Avilés, C Salgado, J. Tordecilla, Mónica Varas, Marcela Venegas, Milena Villarroel, Marcela Zubieta, Alberto Toso, A. Bataszew, Mauricio J. Farfán, Verónica de la Maza, Alejandra Vergara, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Juan Pablo Torres   +16 more
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A costly separation between withdrawing and withholding treatment in intensive care. [PDF]

Bioethics, 2014
Wilkinson D, Savulescu J.
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Withdrawing or withholding treatments in health care rationing: an interview study on ethical views and implications

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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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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What passive euthanasia is

BMC Medical Ethics, 2020
Background Euthanasia can be thought of as being either active or passive; but the precise definition of “passive euthanasia” is not always clear. Though all passive euthanasia involves the withholding of life-sustaining treatment, there would appear to ...
Iain Brassington
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Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment from Children: Experiences of Nurses Caring for the Children [PDF]

Child Health Nursing Research, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe feelings and actions of nurses following withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from children being cared for by the nurses.
So Yeon Park, Hyeon Ok Ju, Ga Eon Lee
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Long-term Outcomes after the Discontinuation of Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Therapy in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease under Clinical Remission: A Korean Association for the Study of Intestinal Disease Multicenter Study

Gut and Liver, 2021
Background/Aims: Our study aimed to evaluate the long-term outcomes and risk factors for relapse after anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α cessation in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients because they are not well established.
Joo Hye Song, Eun Ae Kang, Soo-Kyung Park, Sung Noh Hong, You Sun Kim, Ki Bae Bang, Kyeong Ok Kim, Hong Sub Lee, Sang-Bum Kang, Seung Yong Shin, Eun Mi Song, Jong Pil Im, Chang Hwan Choi, IBD Research Group of the Korean Association for the Study of Intestinal Diseases   +13 more
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