نتایج جستجو برای: futile medical care
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BACKGROUND Empirical surveys about medical futility are scarce relative to its theoretical assumptions. We aimed to evaluate the difference of attitudes between laypeople and physicians towards the issue. METHODS A questionnaire survey was designed. Japanese laypeople (via Internet) and physicians with various specialties (via paper-and-pencil questionnaire) were asked about whether they woul...
background: nowadays, quality of patient care is one of the major and important concerns of health care delivery which is extremely dependent on the medical staff. objectives: the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between quality of work life (qwl) and quality of patient care. methods: this study was a descriptive-analytic study based on correlation which was conducted i...
the present study aims at locating the appropriate site for the training of medical students. it is argued that in community oriented medical education the training of medical students should take place where more patients come for consultation. this will result in students having a greater exposure to patients with a variety of medical problems. in order to find out the places where more patie...
conclusions the results indicated that suitable facilities and equipment, human resources, and infrastructure were available in the district hospitals in iran. these findings showed that there is potential for the district hospitals to provide care in a wider spectrum. results in this study, 100% of the studied hospitals had oxygen cylinders, running water, electricity, anesthesia machines, eme...
Editorial Note: Readers of the Journal will recall that in the July/August issue of 2004 (Volume 65, Number 4), we chose the topical theme of “New Directions in End-of-Life and Palliative Care.” Reaction to this issue has been very positive, but a number of additional issues have been raised in North Carolina and around the country, which are worthy of our consideration. The commentary that fol...
RATIONALE Intensive care unit (ICU) clinicians sometimes have a conscientious objection (CO) to providing or disclosing information about a legal, professionally accepted, and otherwise available medical service. There is little guidance about how to manage COs in ICUs. OBJECTIVES To provide clinicians, hospital administrators, and policymakers with recommendations for managing COs in the cri...
BACKGROUND Making decision about what kind of caring is entitled as futile care requires the presentation of a clear definition of such caretaking. OBJECTIVE To report an analysis of the concept of futile care. DESIGN The analysis in this research was carried out through hybrid model in three stages. At the theoretical stage: a review of the available literature. At the work-in-field stage...
Doctors have no ethical obligation to provide futile treatment. This has been true since the time of Hippocrates who warned physicians not to treat patients who were “overmastered by their disease.” This principle remains valid today but, as the Society for Critical Care Medicine notes, it is difficult to identify treatment as absolutely futile in all but a few clinical situations. Far more com...
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