Comparing doctors’ legal compliance across three Australian states for decisions whether to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining medical treatment: does different law lead to different decisions?

BACKGROUND: Law purports to regulate end-of-life care but its role in decision-making by doctors is not clear. This paper, which is part of a three-year study into the role of law in medical practice at the end of life, investigates whether law affects doctors’ decision-making. In particular, it con...

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Autores principales: White, Ben P., Willmott, Lindy, Cartwright, Colleen, Parker, Malcolm, Williams, Gail, Davis, Juliet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5704501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29179708
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-017-0249-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5704501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29179708
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-017-0249-1

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