Medical Futility Ethics

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 beneficial. Because health professionals may reasonably …

Medical Futility: Legal and Ethical Analysis | Journal of Ethics ...

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

When Doctors and Patients Disagree About Medical Futility

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

There is no uniform definition for medical futility. State laws rarely define medically futile or ineffective care. 1 The American Medical Association (AMA) guidelines …

Medical futility: its meaning and ethical implications

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

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

Futility | UW Department of Bioethics & Humanities

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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 …

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 identified that a particular treatment was ‘futile’, this …

Is a determination of medical futility ethical? - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22488337/

Abstract. Medical futility is a timely topic and one fraught with ethical implications. Medical futility is a term used to describe medical interventions that are expected to …

What is medical futility? : Nursing2020 Critical Care - LWW

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“Medical futility refers to interventions that are unlikely to produce any significant benefit to the patient: quantitative futility, where the likelihood that an …

Code of Medical Ethics | Ethical Guidance …

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Code of Medical Ethics | Ethical Guidance for Physicians | AMA Delivering Care Ethics The AMA was founded in part to establish the first national codification of …

AMA’s ethics guideline on medical futility policies

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When further intervention to prolong the life of a patient becomes futile, physicians have an obligation to shift the intent of care toward comfort and closure. …