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September 2, 2003JAMA670 citations

Effect of Ethics Consultations on Nonbeneficial Life-Sustaining Treatments in the Intensive Care Setting

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LSLawrence J. SchneidermanTGTodd GilmerHTHolly Teetzel

Key Points

  • Investigate the role of ethics consultations in addressing conflicts over life-sustaining treatments in the ICU.
  • Conducted in an intensive care unit setting
  • Utilized ethics consultations to address patient treatment decisions
  • Ethics consultations effectively resolved conflicts over unwanted treatments
  • Reduced the duration of nonbeneficial treatments in the ICU

Abstract

Ethics consultations were useful in resolving conflicts that may have inappropriately prolonged nonbeneficial or unwanted treatments in the ICU.

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Schneiderman et al. (2003) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d93c5500ab073a2783582fhttps://doi.org/10.1001/jama.290.9.1166
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