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Life Sciences
New life sciences study results from Columbus Children's Hospital, Medical Department described
March 1st, 2008
"The debate about how to resolve cases in which patients and families demand interventions that clinicians regard as futile has been in evolution over the past 20 years. This debate can be divided into three generations," scientists in the United States report. "The first generation was characterized by attempts to define futility in terms of certain clinical criteria. These attempts failed because they proposed limitations to care based on value judgments for which there is no consensus among a significant segment of society. The second generation was a procedural approach that empowered hospitals, through their ethics committees, to decide whether interventions...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-03-01)
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