Add to ORKGIn caring for dying patients, family medicine practitioners intentionally adopt care plans that affect the manner and timing of death. These decisions are morally weighty. This article provides guidance regarding the ethical and legal appropriateness of practitioner decisions near the end of life. Topics include surrogate decision making, advance care planning, medical nutrition and hydration, double effect, futile care, physician-assisted death, voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, palliative sedation to unconsciousness, and cultural humility
Individuals throughout the nation are examining their personal options to determine end-of-life deci...
End-of-life care revolves around the terminally ill patient’s quality of life, the dying process, an...
This Article considers how best to ensure that patients have the tools to make informed choices abou...
End of life (EOL) care presents a number of legal and ethical challenges in all societies irrespect...
Religion and spirituality has undoubtedly played a major and intervening role in a person’s life and...
Background: Physicians who treat patients approaching the end of life often face moral, ethical, and...
Purpose/Objectives: The end-of-life needs and desires of patients, whether it is related to a termin...
This Article discusses the limits of how end of life law can address threats to patient autonomy. Th...
End of life decisions constitute one of the areas in medical practice in which ethical dilemmas and ...
The law regulating medical end-of-life decisions aims to support patients to receive high-quality he...
The ability of medical science to prolong biological life through the use of technology raises the q...
The ethical and legal problems that arise in making decisions aboutstarting, continuing, and stoppin...
Managing end-of-life care can be difficult because of the particular nature of intensive care suppor...
Original article can be found at: http://www.pharmj.com/ Copyright The Pharmaceutical Journal. [Full...
Towards the end of life, physicians face dilemmas of discontinuing life-sustaining treatments or int...
Individuals throughout the nation are examining their personal options to determine end-of-life deci...
End-of-life care revolves around the terminally ill patient’s quality of life, the dying process, an...
This Article considers how best to ensure that patients have the tools to make informed choices abou...
End of life (EOL) care presents a number of legal and ethical challenges in all societies irrespect...
Religion and spirituality has undoubtedly played a major and intervening role in a person’s life and...
Background: Physicians who treat patients approaching the end of life often face moral, ethical, and...
Purpose/Objectives: The end-of-life needs and desires of patients, whether it is related to a termin...
This Article discusses the limits of how end of life law can address threats to patient autonomy. Th...
End of life decisions constitute one of the areas in medical practice in which ethical dilemmas and ...
The law regulating medical end-of-life decisions aims to support patients to receive high-quality he...
The ability of medical science to prolong biological life through the use of technology raises the q...
The ethical and legal problems that arise in making decisions aboutstarting, continuing, and stoppin...
Managing end-of-life care can be difficult because of the particular nature of intensive care suppor...
Original article can be found at: http://www.pharmj.com/ Copyright The Pharmaceutical Journal. [Full...
Towards the end of life, physicians face dilemmas of discontinuing life-sustaining treatments or int...
Individuals throughout the nation are examining their personal options to determine end-of-life deci...
End-of-life care revolves around the terminally ill patient’s quality of life, the dying process, an...
This Article considers how best to ensure that patients have the tools to make informed choices abou...