Futility in the intensive care unit: hard cases make bad law

Crit Care Med. 2010 Aug;38(8):1742-3. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181e8783c.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Attitude of Health Personnel
  • Critical Care / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Decision Making
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Intensive Care Units*
  • Life Support Care / ethics
  • Life Support Care / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Male
  • Malpractice*
  • Medical Futility / ethics
  • Medical Futility / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Practice Patterns, Physicians' / ethics
  • Practice Patterns, Physicians' / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Professional-Family Relations
  • Quality of Health Care
  • United States