Medical Futility Laws

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

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

All states have at least one law that relates to medical futility. Of these, 19 state laws protect a physician’s futility judgment and provide no effective protection of a patient’s wishes to the contrary; 18 state laws give patients a right to receive life …

When Doctors and Patients Disagree About Medical Futility

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

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

Medical Futility: Legal and Ethical Analysis | Journal of Ethics ...

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

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 …

Difficult Situations - Texas Medical Association

https://www.texmed.org/difficultsituations/

The medical futility law covers situations in which a physician believes life-sustaining treatment would exacerbate or extend a patient's suffering, and refuses to start or …

Medical Futility: Legal and Ethical Aspects | Law, …

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/law-medicine-and-healthcare/article/medical-futility-legal-and-ethical-aspects/EBC248D26CFE793DFAD16494B52C7F72

I welcome the long-overdue recognition of medical futility represented by the contributions of Koch, et al., Miles, and Dew, although I would be more comfortable with using the …

GUIDELINES FOR TERMINATING TREATMENT

https://www.med.umich.edu/adultethics/Revised.Guidelines.Witholding.Withdrawal.pdf

refusal of treatment. The Michigan Durable Power of Attorney Law for health care says that an advanced directive goes into effect when the patient's attending physician and another …

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 …

Futility | UW Department of Bioethics & Humanities

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

Journal of the American Medical Association 2005; 293:1374-1381. Dominic JC & J Savulescu. Knowing when to stop: futility in the ICU. Current Opinion in Anesthesiology …

Code of Medical Ethics | Ethical Guidance for Physicians …

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics

The AMA was founded in part to establish the first national codification of medical ethics. The AMA Code of Medical Ethics and the AMA Journal of Ethics® collectively underscore AMA’s commitment to …

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