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Withholding or withdrawing treatment.
JAMA, 1986To the Editor.— Recently, the American Medical Association (AMA) Council of Ethical and Judicial Affairs adopted a stand based on ethical considerations that allows the withholding of nutrition and fluids from patients under special clinical circumstances.
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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 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.
Tamra-Lee McCleary, Stephen Honeybul
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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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Withholding and withdrawing treatment
2003Many 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.
K. D. Rooney, N. A. Pace
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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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Position Paper on “Withholding Treatment”
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1979E, Tunks, L, Monti
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Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment
2001First 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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