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Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment for Cost‐Effectiveness Reasons: Are They Ethically on Par?

Bioethics, 2018
In 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 or Withdrawing Treatment

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1987
To 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 or withdrawing treatment.

JAMA, 1986
To 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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Withholding Treatment: A Legal Perspective

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1984
J. Ball
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Providing, Withholding, and Withdrawing Treatment

Journal of the American College of Radiology, 2012
o 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

2021
Considerations 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, 1986
Nurses 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

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.
K. D. Rooney, N. A. Pace
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Withholding or withdrawing treatment

International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 1999
In 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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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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