Medical Futility Articles

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 intervention is no longer …

When Doctors and Patients Disagree About Medical Futility

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There is no uniform definition for medical futility. State laws rarely define medically futile or ineffective care. 1 The American Medical Association (AMA) …

What is medical futility? : Nursing2020 Critical Care - LWW

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

Medical Futility in Concept, Culture, and Practice - PubMed

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Medical Futility in Concept, Culture, and Practice Author Grattan T Brown PMID: 30129737 Abstract This article elucidates the premises and limited meaning of medical futility in …

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 has been conceptualized as a power struggle for decisional authority between physicians and patients/surrogates. Medical futility disputes are best avoided by …

Futility | UW Department of Bioethics & Humanities

https://depts.washington.edu/bhdept/ethics-medicine/bioethics-topics/detail/65

Generally the term medical futility applies when, based on medical data and professional experience, a treating health care provider determines that an intervention is no longer …

Meaningful futility: requests for resuscitation …

https://jme.bmj.com/content/47/10/654

‘Futility’ is a contentious term that has eluded clear definition, with proposed descriptions either too strict or too vague to encompass the many facets of medical care. …

Medical futility at the end of life: the …

https://jme.bmj.com/content/38/9/540

Abstract Objectives Medical futility at the end of life is a growing challenge to medicine. The goals of the authors were to elucidate how clinicians define futility, when they …

Futility has no utility in resuscitation medicine | Journal of Medical ...

https://jme.bmj.com/content/26/5/396

Futility is used as the “trump card” which “frees the physician from the obligation to provide medical treatment”, 11 despite a desire, from the patient or surrogates, to have the treatments provided. After all, no patient can demand an intervention which is futile.