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Limitation of the therapeutic effort: ethical and legal justification for withholding and/or withdrawing life sustaining treatments
Withholding and withdrawing a treatment already established are two forms of limitation of the therapeutic effort (LTE). The question of undergoing or not undergoing lifesaving medical treatments is not restricted to a specific health care context, as it refers to a variety of treatments, and it doe...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4335772/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25705381 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40248-015-0001-8 |