Non-Treatment Decisions on Grounds of "Medical Futility" and "Quality of Life": Interviews with Fourteen Dutch Neonatologists. Non-Treatment Decisions on Grounds of "Medical Futility" and "Quality of Life": Interviews with Fourteen Dutch Neonatologists.

Non-Treatment Decisions on Grounds of "Medical Futility" and "Quality of Life": Interviews with Fourteen Dutch Neonatologists‪.‬

Issues in Law & Medicine 2010, Summer, 26, 1

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ABSTRACT: This essay opens with background information about the concept of "medical futility" and the regulation of non-treatment decisions in Dutch neonatology. The regulations include a list of criteria for predicting the baby's future quality of life. The second part presents the findings from interviews with fourteen Dutch neonatologists on the mannerin which they apply the criteria in their practice. **********

GENRE
Gewerbe und Technik
ERSCHIENEN
2010
22. Juni
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
14
Seiten
VERLAG
National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc.
GRÖSSE
282.4
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