Medical futility: A paradigm analysis

HEC Forum

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-32

  Jecker, Nancy S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEATH; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORALITY; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PATIENT CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; TERMINAL CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANENCEPHALY; BRAIN DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL FUTILITY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947168366     PISSN: 09562737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10730-007-9033-6     Document Type: Review

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