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Withholding and withdrawing treatment

2003
Many years ago medicine could not offer critically ill patients very much apart from a sympathetic ear and a comforting word. Since then, thanks to technology, the art of medicine has made rapid progress. Today doctors can choose from a vast array of interventions that can keep almost anyone alive, sometimes almost indefinitely.
N. A. Pace, Kevin Rooney
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New onset of venous thromboembolism among hospitalized patients at Brigham and Women's Hospital is caused more often by prophylaxis failure than by withholding treatment.

Chest, 2000
CONTEXT Guidelines to prevent venous thromboembolism (VTE) have been widely distributed and generally have been assumed to be effective. Therefore, among hospitalized patients, the development of VTE is thought to occur in the context of omitted ...
S. Goldhaber, Kelly L. Dunn, Regina C. Mac Dougall   +2 more
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Withdrawing and withholding treatment: policies in long-term care facilities.

The gerontologist, 1990
The Task Force on Life and the Law conducted a survey of nursing homes in New York State in 1986 and 1988. The survey examined the existence of policies on decisions about life-sustaining treatment, the process to determine which residents have decision ...
T. Miller, A. M. Cugliari
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The productivity costs of providing or withholding treatment.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 1994
To the Editor. —Dr Eddy 1 has written yet another excellent article. To be complete, the following principle should be inserted (probably as No. 3) on his list: Because illness-related productivity losses have the same economic impact on society as ...
G. Anstadt
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Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment

2001
First of all, I would like to outline the use of the terms ‘withholding treatment’ and ‘withdrawing treatment’. They belong to the conceptual category of ‘medical decisions at the end of life’, including euthanasia. In contrast to killing, euthanasia only takes place when death is imminent — then and only then.
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Position Paper on “Withholding Treatment”

The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1979
Liliana Monti, Eldon Tunks
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The Physician's Authority to Withhold Futile Treatment

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1995
The debate over futility is driven, in part, by physicians' desire to recover some measure of decision-making authority from their patients. The standard approach begins by noting that certain interventions are futile for certain patients and then asserts that doctors have no obligation to provide futile treatment.
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Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment-Reply

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1987
—Rosen misrepresents my position when he states that I suggested that "we need not give medication or transfusions to the dying patient." Pain relief is an obligation that the physician must provide his dying patient to the very end. Similarly, if a blood transfusion for an anemic patient can increase the patient's comfort and improve the patient's ...
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Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment-Reply

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1986
In Reply.— The Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (formerly the Judicial Council) provides opinions on various ethical issues in an effort to provide guidance to the medical profession and to the public. Reflecting its long-standing concern with providing guidance on the ethical issues surrounding the care of the dying patient, the Council ...
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Withdrawing and withholding life-sustaining treatment

2013
The ethics of decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining therapies are reviewed. Special attention is paid to the ethical and moral distinctions - or lack thereof - between withholding and withdrawing. The ethical principles informing decisions to forgo life-sustaining therapy are covered, along with the difficulty of making such decisions in ...
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