Futile Medical Treatments

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When Doctors and Patients Disagree About Medical Futility

https://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/jop.0848503

Factors that may help physicians determine when additional treatment is medically futile, and what physicians can do to encourage patients to explore more appropriate care options. Medical and technological advances mean that cancer patients …

Medical futility: definition, determination, and disputes in …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16159066/

Medical futility remains ethically controversial for several reasons. Some physicians summarily claim a treatment is futile without knowing the relevant outcome data. …

Medical futility: A nurse's viewpoint - American Nurse

https://www.myamericannurse.com/medical-futility-a-nurses-viewpoint/

A medically futile treatment is commonly defined as one that: • won’t achieve the patient’s intended goal (if known) • serves no legitimate goal of medical …

When is medical treatment futile? A guide for students

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15482559/

Abstract. A difficult ethical conundrum in clinical medicine is determining when to withdraw or withhold treatments deemed medically futile. These decisions are …

What is medical futility? : Nursing2020 Critical Care - LWW

https://journals.lww.com/nursingcriticalcare/Fulltext/2007/01000/What_is_medical_futility_.4.aspx

“Futility means any treatment that, within a reasonable degree of medical certainty, is seen to be without benefit to the patient, as when the treatment at issue is …

Medical Futility: Legal and Ethical …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medical-futility-legal-and-ethical-analysis/2007-05

If a physician believes, after carefully onsidering the patient's medical status, values and goals, that a particular medical treatment is futile because it violates the principles of beneficence and justice, …

Federal study finds rampant bias in medical “futile care” …

https://ncd.gov/newsroom/2019/NCD-study-medical-futility

All states have at least one statute that relates to medical futility – whether it be by shielding a health care provider’s decision to deny life-sustaining care, protecting …

Futility - Ethics, conflict and medical …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537981/

In the case of Mr James, Sir Alan Ward in the Court of Appeal identified that a core goal of medical treatments is a “real prospect of curing or at least palliating the life- threatening disease …

Futile Treatments in Intensive Care Units - JAMA

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/1735891

Acid Base, Electrolytes, Fluids Allergy and Clinical Immunology Anesthesiology Anticoagulation Art and Images in Psychiatry Bleeding and Transfusion Cardiology …

Medically Ineffective Interventions | ama-coe

https://code-medical-ethics.ama-assn.org/ethics-opinions/medically-ineffective-interventions

Physicians should only recommend and provide interventions that are medically appropriate—i.e., scientifically grounded—and that reflect the physician’s considered …

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