The authors explore the question of how the right of patients to refuse life-sustaining treatment can be reconciled with a hospital's or nursing home's differing philosophy of care. They review three recent court cases ...

To insure that medical interventions take place after informed consent, Kapp proposes that reimbursement for care be linked directly to proof that the treatment was consented to by either the patient or a suitable designated ...

In December 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a Missouri right-to-die case,