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Title
Medical futility at the end of life: the perspectives of intensive care and palliative care clinicians.
Authors
Jox, Ralf J; Schaider, Andreas; Marckmann, Georg; Borasio, Gian Domenico
Abstract
Medical futility at the end of life is a growing challenge to medicine. The goals of the authors were to elucidate how clinicians define futility, when they perceive life-sustaining treatment (LST) to be futile, how they communicate this situation and why LST is sometimes continued despite being recognised as futile.
Publication
Journal of medical ethics, 2012, Vol 38, Issue 9, p540