Preventing life-sustaining treatment by default

UK Braun, LB McCullough - The Annals of Family Medicine, 2011 - Annals Family Med
Many physicians will at some point care for patients who will receive life-sustaining
treatment by default, because there are no instructions available from the patient as to what …

[PDF][PDF] The shared burden: When physicians and families decide to forego life-sustaining treatment

SS Erstling - Journal of Family Practice, 1985 - cdn.mdedge.com
Family physicians are being called upon to make decisions regarding whether to forego life-
sustaining treatment. These decisions are made based on consultation with the family of the …

Is the patient's right to die evolving into a duty to die?: Medical decision making and ethical evaluations in health care

CL Sprung, LA Eidelman… - Journal of Evaluation in …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
When patient or family requests for continued life‐sustaining treatments conflict with doctor
recommendations, different conclusions as to what is beneficial for the patient may arise …

[HTML][HTML] Respecting end-of-life treatment preferences

MK Crane, M Wittink, DJ Doukas - American family physician, 2005 - aafp.org
Most patients eventually must face the process of planning for their future medical care.
However, few Americans have a living will or a durable power of attorney for health care …

[HTML][HTML] Dialogue on End-of-Life Decision Making: The ethics of surrogate decision making

BA Rich - Western journal of medicine, 2002 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In an ideal world, every adult would have executed a clear and unambiguous advance
directive, given it to all family members, and discussed it thoroughly with his or her personal …

Answers and questions about ethics consultations

B Lo - JAMA, 2003 - jamanetwork.com
Bernard Lo, MD ETHICS CONSULTATIONS ARE TOUTED FOR RESOLVING ETHI-cal
dilemmas, and most hospitals use them to meet the Joint Commission for the Accreditation …

Being a burden on others

NS Jecker - The Journal of clinical ethics, 1993 - journals.uchicago.edu
Individuals facing death are sometimes reluctant to exhaust the income and assets they
have accumulated over a lifetime in order to pay for end-of-life care. They also may fear and …

Actual and perceived stability of preferences for life-sustaining treatment

RM Gready, PH Ditto, JH Danks… - The Journal of …, 2000 - journals.uchicago.edu
Advance directives are intended to preserve patients' ability to influence decisions about the
medical care they receive when illness or injury deprives them of the capacity to make …

End-of-life decision making: when patients and surrogates disagree

PB Terry, M Vettese, J Song, J Forman… - The Journal of …, 1999 - journals.uchicago.edu
When a patient is unable to make medical decisions, it is assumed that surrogate decision
makers should make judgments that reflect the patient's choices or values, a standard …

Commentary on discussions about life-sustaining treatments

EJ Emanuel - The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 1994 - journals.uchicago.edu
More than 25 years ago Luis Kutner first proposed the idea of a living will so patients could
control the life-sustaining treatments they receive should they become incompetent. More …