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Decisions to Abate Life-Sustaining Treatment for Nonautonomous Patients: Ethical Standards and Legal Liability for Physicians After

dc.creatorWeir, Robert F.en
dc.creatorGostin, Larryen
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-05T18:39:12Zen
dc.date.available2015-05-05T18:39:12Zen
dc.date.created1990-10-10en
dc.date.issued1990-10-10en
dc.identifier10.1001/jama.1990.03450140068036en
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationJAMA. 1990 Oct 10; 264(14): 1846-1853.en
dc.identifier.issn0098-7484en
dc.identifier.urihttp://worldcatlibraries.org/registry/gateway?version=1.0&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&atitle=Decisions+to+Abate+Life-Sustaining+Treatment+for+Nonautonomous+patients:+Ethical+Standards+and+Legal+Liability+for+Physicians+after&title=JAMA.+&volume=264&issue=14&pages=1846-1853&date=1990&au=Weir,+Robert+F.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1990.03450140068036en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10822/737920en
dc.description.abstractThe lives of hopelessly ill patients often are prolonged because physicians are uncertain of the legal consequences of discontinuing life-sustaining treatment, particularly when a patient lacks decision making capacity. Physician uncertainty may increase in the light of the U.S. Supreme Court'sen
dc.formatArticleen
dc.languageenen
dc.sourceBRL:KIE/32076en
dc.subjectAdvance Directivesen
dc.subjectAllowing to Dieen
dc.subjectArtificial Feedingen
dc.subjectAutonomyen
dc.subjectCompetenceen
dc.subjectConsenten
dc.subjectDecision Makingen
dc.subjectFamily Membersen
dc.subjectFreedomen
dc.subjectGovernmenten
dc.subjectHealthen
dc.subjectJudicial Actionen
dc.subjectLegal Aspectsen
dc.subjectLegal Liabilityen
dc.subjectLegal Rightsen
dc.subjectLifeen
dc.subjectLiabilityen
dc.subjectPatientsen
dc.subjectPersistent Vegetative Stateen
dc.subjectPhysiciansen
dc.subjectPrivacyen
dc.subjectProlongation of Lifeen
dc.subjectReviewen
dc.subjectRight to Dieen
dc.subjectRightsen
dc.subjectStandardsen
dc.subjectState Governmenten
dc.subjectState Interesten
dc.subjectThird Party Consenten
dc.subjectTreatment Refusalen
dc.subjectUncertaintyen
dc.subjectVentilatorsen
dc.titleDecisions to Abate Life-Sustaining Treatment for Nonautonomous Patients: Ethical Standards and Legal Liability for Physicians Afteren
dc.provenanceDigital citation created by the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature at Georgetown University for the BIOETHICSLINE database, part of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics' Bioethics Information Retrieval Project funded by the United States National Library of Medicine.en
dc.provenanceDigital citation migrated from OpenText LiveLink Discovery Server database named NBIO hosted by the Bioethics Research Library to the DSpace collection BioethicsLine hosted by Georgetown University.en


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