Futility Medical Ethics

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medical-futility-legal-and-ethical-analysis/2007-05

Futility is defined as "inadequacy to produce a result or bring about a required end; ineffectiveness" . Medically, the concept of "futility," according to the American Medical Association, "cannot be meaningfully defined" . Essentially, futility is a subjective judgment, but one that is realistically … See more

Medical Futility | UW Department of Bioethics & Humanities

https://depts.washington.edu/bhdept/ethics-medicine/bioethics-topics/articles/medical-futility

Involvement of an ethics consultation service is desirable in such situations. The 1999 Texas Advance Directives Act provides one model for designing a fair process for conflict …

Medical futility: its meaning and ethical implications

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2187394/

The notion of medical futility has quantitative and qualitative roots that offer a practical approach to its definition and application. Applying these traditions to …

Futility - Ethics, conflict and medical …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537981/

The specific term ‘futility’ first appeared in medical ethics in the 1980s. The idea was that if doctors …