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- Title
What Should We Do About the Mismatch Between the Legal Criteria for Death and How Brain Death Is Diagnosed?
- Authors
Robbins, Nathaniel M.; Bernat, James L.
- Abstract
Mismatch between whole-brain death criteria embedded in statutes and accepted tests physicians use to diagnose brain death have clinical and ethical implications that could undermine public trust in death pronouncements. We consider merits and drawbacks of 4 ways to address this problem.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BRAIN death laws; DEATH -- Law &; legislation; BRAIN death; MEDICAL ethics; MEDICAL laws; PHYSICIANS; PUBLIC opinion; TRUST; CONTINUING education units; ROUTINE diagnostic tests
- Publication
AMA Journal of Ethics, 2020, Vol 22, Issue 12, p1038
- ISSN
2376-6980
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/amajethics.2020.1038