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• Medical Futility: Response to Critiques 

  Schneiderman, Lawrence J.; Jecker, Nancy S.; Jonsen, Albert R. (1996-10-15)

  Six years ago, we proposed a patient benefit-centered definition of medical futility that included both quantitative and qualitative components. We distinguished between an effect of a treatment that is limited to some ...