title: End-of-life decision making and developing international law.
abstract: Physicians may increasingly find themselves enmeshed in the web of controversy associated with the propriety of discontinuing treatment, particularly when the treatment may provide no discernible therapeutic benefit to an incompetent patient. A look at international thinking on this issue offers other perspectives.
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authors: Uzych
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D038622:Internationality; D033222:Judicial Role; D007883:Legislation, Medical; D009520:New Zealand; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D016414:Resuscitation Orders; D014481:United States; D028761:Withholding Treatment