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Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment
2021Considerations regarding withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatments are not uncommon in the setting of devastating traumatic brain injury. In many complex cases, the best medical action may be to withdraw medication and life support technologies or to deny surgery.
Stephen Honeybul, Tamra-Lee McCleary
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Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1986To the Editor.— I attended the symposium jointly sponsored by the American Medical Association and the Hastings Center in New Orleans from March 14 to 16 entitled "A New Ethic for a New Medicine." The recently announced opinion of the Judicial Council on the feeding of irreversibly comatose patients will bring serious harm to the medical profession ...
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Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1987To the Editor. —I strongly disagree with the position of the American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs that, under certain very limited circumstances, "it is not unethical to discontinue all means of life-prolonging medical treatment" and that "life-prolonging medical treatment includes medication and artificially or ...
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Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment: Ethically Equivalent?
American Journal of Bioethics, 2019Withholding and withdrawing treatment are widely regarded as ethically equivalent in medical guidelines and ethics literature. Health care personnel, however, widely perceive moral differences between withholding and withdrawing.
L. Ursin
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Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment for Cost‐Effectiveness Reasons: Are They Ethically on Par?
Bioethics, 2018In healthcare priority settings, early access to treatment before reimbursement decisions gives rise to problems of whether negative decisions for cost-effectiveness reasons should result in withdrawing treatment, already accessed by patients.
L. Sandman, J. Liliemark
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Withholding Treatment: Is It Ethical?
Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 1986Nurses often perceive themselves as being powerless, and may believe the only ethical decisions they make are whether or not to follow orders.
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Decisions to Withhold or Terminate Treatment
Neurologic Clinics, 1989Decisions to withhold or terminate treatment are common clinical dilemmas in patients dying from diseases of the nervous system. Decision making for such patients must be based upon ethical principles. Under the doctrine of valid consent and refusal, competent patients have the right to refuse life-sustaining therapies.
William A Nelson, James L. Bernat
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Providing, Withholding, and Withdrawing Treatment
Journal of the American College of Radiology, 2012o t w q s s h p p w c m i One of the most challenging ethical issues in medicine concerns providing, withholding, and withdrawing care. It raises many fundamental questions concerning the goals and methods of medicine. For example, if the prolongation of life is not always patients’ and physicians’ overriding objective, under what circumstances might ...
Richard B. Gunderman, Sara B. Olack
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Withholding treatment from Baby Doe: from discrimination to child abuse.
The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly Health and Society, 1985Questions surrounding withholding treatment from severely impaired newborns have elicited three significantly different substantive and procedural responses: from the Reagan administration's Department of Health and Human Services through the Carter ...
N. K. Rhoden, J. Arras
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Withholding or withdrawing treatment
International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 1999In 1999 the British Medical Association (BMA) published guidance on withholding and withdrawing life-prolonging medical treatment (BMA, 1999). Over 2000 people responded to the preceding consultation exercise, and the resulting document was long-awaited by many health professionals.
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