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Withdrawing or withholding life prolonging treatment [PDF]
BMJ, 1999 News p 1717 The advice of the House of Lords about persistent vegetative state in the 1993 Anthony Bland case left some British doctors in an odd and uncomfortable position.1 Although decisions about the withholding or withdrawal of life prolonging treatment for a small number of younger patients with very severe cognitive and physical disability ...
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Taxing Profits in a Changing World [PDF]
, 1997 This report looks at how corporate income taxes have changed over the past two decades, what incentives they provide for domestic and international investment, and whether changes in the international economy have helped shape these ...
Chennells, C, Griffith, R
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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2017 Background Treatment-limiting decisions (TLD) for severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) have been sparsely studied. This study determine prevalence, main reason for, categories and timing of TLDs in a Norwegian regional trauma setting.
Annette Robertsen +3 more
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Effects of Treatment on the Treated: Identification and Generalization [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 Many applications of causal analysis call for assessing, retrospectively, the effect of withholding an action that has in fact been implemented. This counterfactual quantity, sometimes called "effect of treatment on the treated," (ETT) have been used to to evaluate educational programs, critic public policies, and justify individual decision making. In
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Defining the Right to Die [PDF]
, 1993 Although Friedrich Nietzsche was not noted for his views on medical ethics, the above quotation captures the essence of James Lindgren\u27s article. Lindgren posits that the recent O\u27Connor\u27 and Cruzan decisions signal a shift in the law on the ...
English, David M.
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Evaluation of Informed Consent for Withholding and Withdrawal of Life Support in Korean Intensive Care Units [PDF]
Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2015 Background: The goal of this study was to analyze the process and characteristics of withholding or withdrawal of life support (WLS) in Korean intensive care units (ICUs). Methods: This was a single-centered retrospective analysis of patients who died in
Jin Ha Park +3 more
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Discouraging Pool Block Withholding Attacks in Bitcoins [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 The arisen of Bitcoin has led to much enthusiasm for blockchain research and block mining, and the extensive existence of mining pools helps its participants (i.e., miners) gain reward more frequently. Recently, the mining pools are proved to be vulnerable for several possible attacks, and pool block withholding attack is one of them: one strategic ...
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Low-cost attacks on Ethereum 2.0 by sub-1/3 stakeholders [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 We outline two dishonest strategies that can be cheaply executed on the Ethereum 2.0 beacon chain, even by validators holding less than one-third of the total stake: malicious chain reorganizations ("reorgs") and finality delays. In a malicious reorg, an attacker withholds their blocks and attestations before releasing them at an opportune time in ...
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Hemodialysis as a life-sustaining treatment at the end of life
Kidney Research and Clinical Practice, 2018 The Act on Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment for Patients in Hospice and Palliative Care or at the End of Life came into effect on February 4th, 2018, in South Korea.
Sung Joon Shin, Jae Hang Lee
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Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 2014 End-of-life decisions are made daily in intensive care units worldwide. There are numerous factors affecting these decisions, including geographical location as well as religion and attitudes of caregivers, patients, and families.
Marc Romain, Charles L. Sprung
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