Medical futility: a futile concept?

Wash Lee Law Rev. 1996;53(2):803-48.
No abstract available

MeSH terms

  • Anencephaly
  • Brain Death
  • Consensus
  • Decision Making*
  • Dissent and Disputes
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Euthanasia, Passive*
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Group Processes
  • Health Care Rationing
  • Hospitals
  • Human Rights
  • Humans
  • Jurisprudence*
  • Life Support Care*
  • Medical Futility*
  • Mental Competency
  • Patient Transfer
  • Persistent Vegetative State
  • Personal Autonomy
  • Physician's Role
  • Physician-Patient Relations*
  • Physicians*
  • Politics
  • Refusal to Treat*
  • Resource Allocation
  • Resuscitation
  • Treatment Outcome
  • United States
  • Value of Life
  • Withholding Treatment*