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The ethics of forgoing life-sustaining treatment: theoretical considerations and clinical decision making

Withholding or withdrawing a life-sustaining treatment tends to be very challenging for health care providers, patients, and their family members alike. When a patient’s life seems to be nearing its end, it is generally felt that the morally best approach is to try a new intervention, continue all t...

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Autores principales: Welie, Jos VM, ten Have, Henk AMJ
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3995268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24618004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2049-6958-9-14