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Meaningful futility: requests for resuscitation against medical recommendation
‘Futility’ is a contentious term that has eluded clear definition, with proposed descriptions either too strict or too vague to encompass the many facets of medical care. Requests for futile care are often surrogates for requests of a more existential character, covering the whole range of personal,...
Autores principales: | Vivas, Lucas, Carpenter, Travis |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8479753/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32332150 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106232 |
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