Consent for withholding life-sustaining treatment in cancer patients: a retrospective comparative analysis before and after the enforcement of the Life Extension Medical Decision law

BACKGROUND: The Life Extension Medical Decision law enacted on February 4, 2018 in South Korea was the first to consider the suspension of futile life-sustaining treatment, and its enactment caused a big controversy in Korean society. However, no study has evaluated whether the actual implementation...

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Autores principales: Chung, Yu Jin, Park, Incheol, Cho, Junho, Beom, Jin Ho, Lee, Ji Eun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8210737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34140017
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12910-021-00644-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8210737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34140017
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12910-021-00644-0

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