Limiting but not abandoning treatment in severely mentally impaired patients: a troubling issue for ethics consultants and ethics committees.
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University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria.
D016223:Advance Directives; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D026686:Beneficence; D032882:Comprehension; D032921:Consensus; D003253:Consultants; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003657:Decision Making; D026822:Ethicists; D017041:Ethics Committees / Q000592:standards*; D028741:Ethics Committees, Clinical; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005066:Euthanasia, Passive; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology*; D008020:Life Support Care / Q000592:standards*; D010166:Palliative Care; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000592:standards; D018579:Patient Selection; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D024382:Professional Role; D016079:Refusal to Treat; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012941:Social Responsibility; D012945:Social Values; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D026712:Value of Life; D028761:Withholding Treatment