Life-sustaining treatment and palliative care in patients with liver cirrhosis - legal, ethical, and practical issues

With the enactment of the ‘Act on Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment for Patients in Hospice and Palliative Care or at the End of Life’ (Act No. 14013) in Korea, there is growing concern about the practicality of this law. In this review, we discuss definitions, ethics, and practical issues rela...

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Autores principales: Kim, Dong Joon, Choi, Moon Seok
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5497670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28460515
http://dx.doi.org/10.3350/cmh.2017.0018
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spelling pubmed-54976702017-07-05 Life-sustaining treatment and palliative care in patients with liver cirrhosis - legal, ethical, and practical issues Kim, Dong Joon Choi, Moon Seok Clin Mol Hepatol Review With the enactment of the ‘Act on Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment for Patients in Hospice and Palliative Care or at the End of Life’ (Act No. 14013) in Korea, there is growing concern about the practicality of this law. In this review, we discuss definitions, ethics, and practical issues related to this law. The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver 2017-06 2017-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5497670/ /pubmed/28460515 http://dx.doi.org/10.3350/cmh.2017.0018 Text en Copyright © 2017 by The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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