Physician refusal of requests for futile or ineffective interventions

Camb Q Healthc Ethics. 1992 Spring;1(2):127-34. doi: 10.1017/s0963180100000220.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
  • Ethics, Medical*
  • Humans
  • Informed Consent / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Moral Obligations
  • Morals
  • Patient Education as Topic / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Personal Autonomy
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • Refusal to Treat / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Resuscitation Orders / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Risk Assessment*
  • Social Values
  • Terminal Care / legislation & jurisprudence*