US Physicians’ Opinions about Distinctions between Withdrawing and Withholding Life-Sustaining Treatment
Decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment (LST) precede the majority of ICU deaths. Although professional guidelines generally treat the two as ethically equivalent, evidence suggests withdrawing LST is often more psychologically difficult than withholding it. The aim of the experi...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
[2016]
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Journal of religion and health
Year: 2016, Volume: 55, Issue: 5, Pages: 1596-1606 |
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Ethics
B Withdrawing life-sustaining treatment B Withholding life-sustaining treatment B end-of-life care |
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