Consensus report on the ethics of foregoing life-sustaining treatments in the critically ill. Task Force on Ethics of the Society of Critical Care Medicine

Crit Care Med. 1990 Dec;18(12):1435-9. doi: 10.1097/00003246-199012000-00026.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Consensus Development Conference
  • Guideline
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Advance Directives
  • Communication
  • Consensus
  • Critical Care*
  • Decision Making
  • Ethics Committees, Clinical
  • Ethics, Medical*
  • Federal Government
  • Government Regulation
  • Humans
  • Informed Consent
  • Life Support Care*
  • Minors
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • Professional-Family Relations
  • Prognosis
  • Quality of Life
  • Risk Assessment
  • Societies, Medical
  • Treatment Refusal
  • Withholding Treatment*