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Withdrawing medically futile treatment.

Dianna S Howard, Timothy M Pawlik.   

Abstract

Physicians confront clinical and ethical dilemmas when their patients wish to continue treatments they have deemed futile; they must consider ethical obligations in deciding whether treatment should be withdrawn and in transferring patients from futile treatment to supportive care.

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Year:  2009        PMID： 20856636      PMCID： PMC2795406          DOI： 10.1200/JOP.0948501

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Oncol Pract        ISSN： 1554-7477            Impact factor:   3.840


  13 in total

1.  When do we stop, and how do we do it? Medical futility and withdrawal of care.

Authors:  Daniel B Hinshaw; Timothy Pawlik; Anne C Mosenthal; Joseph M Civetta; James Hallenbeck
Journal:  J Am Coll Surg       Date:  2003-04       Impact factor: 6.113

2.  When doctors and patients disagree about medical futility.

Authors:  Mary S McCabe; Courtney Storm
Journal:  J Oncol Pract       Date:  2008-07       Impact factor: 3.840

3.  Myelodysplastic syndromes--coping with ineffective hematopoiesis.

Authors:  Mario Cazzola; Luca Malcovati
Journal:  N Engl J Med       Date:  2005-02-10       Impact factor: 91.245

Review 4.  Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: a surgeon's perspective.

Authors:  Timothy M Pawlik
Journal:  J Am Coll Surg       Date:  2006-06       Impact factor: 6.113

5.  The difference between withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment.

Authors:  G Melltorp; T Nilstun
Journal:  Intensive Care Med       Date:  1997-12       Impact factor: 17.440

6.  The answer to "What are my chances, doctor?" depends on whom is asked: prognostic disagreement and inaccuracy for critically ill patients.

Authors:  R M Poses; C Bekes; F J Copare; W E Scott
Journal:  Crit Care Med       Date:  1989-08       Impact factor: 7.598

Review 7.  Medical futility: its meaning and ethical implications.

Authors:  L J Schneiderman; N S Jecker; A R Jonsen
Journal:  Ann Intern Med       Date:  1990-06-15       Impact factor: 25.391

8.  Attitudes of critical care medicine professionals concerning forgoing life-sustaining treatments. The Society of Critical Care Medicine Ethics Committee.

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Journal:  Crit Care Med       Date:  1992-03       Impact factor: 7.598

9.  Physicians do not have a responsibility to provide futile or unreasonable care if a patient or family insists.

Authors:  J M Luce
Journal:  Crit Care Med       Date:  1995-04       Impact factor: 7.598

10.  Survival of elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

Authors:  Alessandro Pulsoni; Livio Pagano; Roberto Latagliata; Marco Casini; Raffaella Cerri; Monica Crugnola; Lorella De Paoli; Eros Di Bona; Rosangela Invernizzi; Filippo Marmont; Maria Concetta Petti; Gianmatteo Rigolin; Francesca Ronco; Antonio Spadano; Maria Elena Tosti; Giuseppe Visani; Alfonso Mele; Franco Mandelli
Journal:  Haematologica       Date:  2004-03       Impact factor: 9.941
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