Right to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment

Deciding to forego life-sustaining treatment.

The right to forego life-sustaining treatment: legal trends and emerging issues.

Mature minors should have the right to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment.

Considerations regarding withholding/withdrawing life-sustaining treatment.

Physicians' decisions to withhold and withdraw life-sustaining treatment.

BACKGROUND Few data are available about physicians' decisions in regard to withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining measures. We therefore studied internists' views on this subject. METHODS We surveyed 1000 generalist and subspecialist internists about their views on withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. Thirty-two hypothetical cases were included. The effect of the demograp...