Medically Futile Cases

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Medical Futility: Legal and Ethical Analysis | Journal of …

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

In the 1990s, patients and patient surrogates began demanding treatments that physicians believed were not in the best interest of the patient because they were medically futile and represented an irresponsible stewardship of health care resources. In legal cases such as Wanglie in 1991 and Baby K in 1994, t… See more

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 subject …

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 …

Ethics and Medical Futility - Medscape

https://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/550278

Medical decisions are generally based on prevalence and risk associated with conditions and known chances of obtaining a specific outcome. Moreover, there can be disagreement between healthcare …

What is medical futility? : Nursing2020 Critical Care - LWW

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

“Futile treatment: Treatment evaluated by the healthcare team, family, or both, as being nonbeneficial or harmful to a dying patient.” 2 “Futility means any …

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 a Surrogate Decision-Maker Wants Medically …

https://consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/when-a-surrogate-decision-maker-wants-medically-futile-treatment/

Case: A patient without DMC, but the surrogate decision-maker wants medically futile treatment A 92-year-old man with metastatic prostate cancer is admitted …

Medical futility: definition, determination, and disputes in …

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

Abstract Physicians may employ the concept of medical futility to justify a decision not to pursue certain treatments that may be requested or demanded by patients or surrogates. …

Case studies in medical futility - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18453136/

Abstract. Technology has provided means to sustain life and provide care regardless of whether the treatment is appropriate and compassionate given the condition of the …

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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