Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapy

Ann Intern Med. 1991 Sep 15;115(6):478-85. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-115-6-478.
No abstract available

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Advance Directives
  • Altruism
  • Beneficence
  • Critical Illness
  • Decision Making*
  • Ethics Committees
  • Ethics Committees, Clinical
  • Euthanasia, Passive*
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Humans
  • Informed Consent
  • Medical Futility
  • Mental Competency
  • Organizational Policy*
  • Patient Participation
  • Patients
  • Persistent Vegetative State
  • Personal Autonomy
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • Physicians
  • Reference Standards*
  • Risk
  • Risk Assessment
  • Social Values
  • Societies
  • Third-Party Consent
  • Treatment Refusal
  • Withholding Treatment*