Medical Futile Care

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When Doctors and Patients Disagree About Medical Futility

https://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/jop.0848503

As in this vignette, a patient may disagree with her doctor's assessment of medical futility, or want to receive a treatment despite its futility. Physicians are not obligated, either from a legal or ethical standpoint, to provide care that falls outside of the …

Federal study finds rampant bias in medical “futile care” …

https://ncd.gov/newsroom/2019/NCD-study-medical-futility

The study, Medical Futility and Disability Bias, found many healthcare providers critically undervalue life with a disability, where they deem treatment “futile” or …

What is medical futility? : Nursing2020 Critical Care - LWW

https://journals.lww.com/nursingcriticalcare/Fulltext/2007/01000/What_is_medical_futility_.4.aspx

Definitions of medical futility vary. Consider the following three descriptions: “Futile treatment: Treatment evaluated by the healthcare team, family, or both, as being …

Medically Ineffective Interventions | ama-coe

https://code-medical-ethics.ama-assn.org/ethics-opinions/medically-ineffective-interventions

Many health care institutions have promoted policies regarding so-called “futile” care. However, physicians must remember that it is not possible to offer a single, universal …

Medical Futility: Legal and Ethical Analysis | Journal of …

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

Futile Care in Medicine: Definition and Legal …

https://medlegal.ca/en/futile-medical-care/

In short, futile care refers to continuing treatment for the sole purpose of prolonging a terminal patient’s life against their best interests. It goes against the Code of …

Medical Futility | UW Department of Bioethics & Humanities

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

Generally the term medical futility applies when, based on medical data and professional experience, a treating health care provider determines that an intervention is no longer …

Medical futility: A nurse's viewpoint - American Nurse

https://www.myamericannurse.com/medical-futility-a-nurses-viewpoint/

A medically futile treatment is commonly defined as one that: • won’t achieve the patient’s intended goal (if known) • serves no legitimate goal of medical practice. • is …

Ethics and Medical Futility - Medscape

https://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/550278

Care is never futile, but medical interventions sometimes are. This was a central theme of Marnie Ritchie Poncy, RN, ESQ, of the Bioethics Law Project, Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County, Inc., …

Futility - Ethics, conflict and medical treatment for …

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 identified that a particular treatment was ‘futile’, this would solve the problem of conflicts. Doctors had no …

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