Medical Futility
Experts' attitudes towards medical futility: an empirical survey from Japan
... paternalistic medical system, which physicians have more power to dictate the treatment, in our survey there was no support for physician's unilateral ...formulating medical futility based on their ...
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Medical futility and its challenges: a review study
... limited medical equipment and resources, particularly in intensive care units (ICUs), have raised the issue of medical ...futility. Medical futility draws a contrast between physician’s ...
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Medical Futility in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Hope for a Resolution
... The resolution of the futility dispute between Isaac’s mother, grandparents, and the treatment team was not surprising. Before this legislatively sanctioned due-process mechanism existed, the eth- ics committee ...
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Conceptualization of Idle (Laghw) and its Relation to Medical Futility
... of medical ethics presented by Beauchamp and Childress, which are accepted and well-known in many countries, is the principle of ...since medical futility is not beneficial to the patient, it is ...
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Texas Advance Directives Act: Nearly a Model Dispute Resolution Mechanism for Intractable Medical Futility Conflicts
... Increasingly, clinicians and commentators have been calling for the establishment of special adjudicatory dispute resolution mechanisms to resolve intractable medical futility disputes. As a leading model ...
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Medical futility treatment in intensive care units
... of medical futility is lack of palli- ative care unit in the analyzed ...receive medical futility patients once their intensive treatment is no longer considered sensible ...about ...
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Ethics Rounds—Symbolic Resuscitation, Medical Futility, and Parental Rights
... From a “medical perspective,” a DNR order for D. K. seems to make sense. The child has a critical acute illness and a severe, presumably static en- cephalopathy, and under the circum- stances, cardiac arrest would ...
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A New Predicament for Physicians: The Concept of Medical Futility, the Physician's Obligation to Render Inappropriate Treatment, and the Interplay of the Medical Standard of Care
... continue treatment deemed "medically and ethically inappropriate." Part III first reviews common law doctrines governing the physician-patient relationship and con[r] ...
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The Case of Baby K: Exploring the Concept of Medical Futility
... Drafting a medical or legal definition of futility may avoid confusion in deciding when treatment should be withheld, but fashioning terminology for physicians to poin[r] ...
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Health Care Law: A Field of Gaps
... The use of medical futility to justify denials of care often provoke controversy, and the public still does not view "brain death" the same as death determined [r] ...
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Futility of Medical treatment
... programs. Medical futility refers to interventions that are unlikely to produce any significant benefit for the ...patient. Medical futility is a daily problem, with significant ethical ...
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Defining futile life-prolonging treatments through Neo-Socratic Dialogue
... on medical futility in the United States center on the fact that it is probable and influ- enced by value judgments and the various objectives of those ...
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Dimensions of Futility at the End of Life: Nurses’ Experiences in Intensive Care Units
... During the initial coding, 80 codes were extracted. During data analysis, the codes were reduced to 65. Ultimately, dimension of futility was defined by using 1 theme and 2 sub-themes and 5 categories. The ...
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Predicting clinical trial results based on announcements of interim analyses
... Background: Announcements of interim analyses of a clinical trial convey information about the results beyond the trial ’ s Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB). The amount of information conveyed may be minimal, but the ...
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Decision-making on therapeutic futility in Mexican adolescents with cancer: a qualitative study
... Thirteen paediatric oncologists who worked the morning shift and were tenured at one of the three medical centres (see next section) participated in this study along with 13 parents of 13 adolescents with cancer. ...
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Issues surrounding end-of-life decision-making
... Upon admission, she underwent emergent evacuation of the hematoma. Although the operation went well, postoperatively she was ventilator-dependent and in a per- sistent coma. She subsequently developed multiorgan failure ...
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Mater Matters: The Female in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
... In addition, Lucretius' discussion of the futility of sexual intercourse as a pleasure, in terms of its lack of an ability to provide satisfaction (1086-1120), is framed explicitly in co[r] ...
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Housing the Urban Poor in Developing Countries: Selected Legal Issues in the Provision of Serviced Land and Shelter
... Within the past decade, policy makers have begun to realize the futility of traditional efforts and have started to search for more effective alternatives. Throughout [r] ...
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Two-stage re-estimation adaptive design: a simulation study
... First of all, one very obvious and unwanted drawback of re-estimation adaptive designs is the remarkable increase in sample size under the null hypothesis. This disadvantage, however, can be totally prevented by ...
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Estimation after subpopulation selection in adaptive seamless trials
... Finally, if there is a futility rule that requires the trial to continue to stage 2 only if the mean difference for the selected population exceeds some pre-specified value and as in [15[r] ...
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