title: Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapy. This Official Statement of the American Thoracic Society was adopted by the ATS Board of Directors, March 1991.
mesh_terms: D016223:Advance Directives; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005066:Euthanasia, Passive; D006801:Humans; D008020:Life Support Care; D010358:Patient Participation; D012955:Societies, Medical; D013896:Thoracic Diseases; D016312:Treatment Refusal