Futility And Medical Care

When Doctors and Patients Disagree About Medical Futility

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

Medical and technological advances mean that cancer patients have more treatment options today than ever before, even patients with advanced disease. This wide range of available options can unfortunately lead to the postponement of complex end-of …

Medical Futility | UW Department of Bioethics & Humanities

https://depts.washington.edu/bhdept/ethics-medicine/bioethics-topics/articles/medical-futility

Generally the term medical futility applies when, based on medical data and professional experience, a treating health care provider determines that an …

Defining Medical Futility and Improving Medical Care

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21765643/

Medical futility has both a quantitative and qualitative component. I maintain that medical futility is the unacceptable likelihood of achieving an effect that the patient has …

Medical Futility: Legal and Ethical Analysis | Journal of …

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

Medical futility: definition, determination, and disputes in …

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

Medical futility means that the proposed therapy should not be performed because available data show that it will not improve the patient's medical condition. Medical …

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

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

In Medical Futility and Disability Bias, NCD found hospital ethics committees charged with mediating and rendering medical futility decisions are …

What is medical futility? : Nursing2020 Critical Care - LWW

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

“Medical futility refers to interventions that are unlikely to produce any significant benefit to the patient: quantitative futility, where the likelihood that an …

Defining Medical Futility and Improving Medical Care

https://physiciansindex.org/feature-articles/defining-medical-futility/

Quantitative and Qualitative Medical Futility Medical futility has both a quantitative and qualitative component. From the writings of the Hippocratic corpus 3 we derive a …

Futility - Ethics, conflict and medical …

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

There was a distinction between a higher “medical” concept of futility, and a more stringent legal definition that might apply in a smaller number of cases. In a previous case of disputed …

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 …