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• The Attitudes of Patients With Advanced AIDS Toward Use of the Medical Futility Rationale in Decisions to Forgo Mechanical Ventilation 

  Curtis, J. Randall; Patrick, Donald L.; Caldwell, Ellen S.; Collier, Ann C. (2000-06-12)
• Why Don't Patients and Physicians Talk About End-of-Life Care? Barriers to Communication for Patients With Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and Their Primary Care Clinicians 

  Curtis, J. Randall; Patrick, Donald L.; Caldwell, Ellen S.; Collier, Ann C. (2000-06-12)
• 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 ...