Using SUPPORT (Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment) to GUIDe (Guidelines for Use of Intensive Care in Denver) our fix on futility.
Futility is finally getting systematic and detailed attention. The subject is being redefined and dissected into its component parts, factored and analyzed into predictable models, set into professional and organizational policies, and crafted into community guidelines, as the following articles describe.
D032921:Consensus; D003422:Critical Care / Q000592:standards; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006302:Health Services Research; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D018447:Medical Futility; D016134:Organizational Policy; D018579:Patient Selection; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012945:Social Values; D014481:United States; D028761:Withholding Treatment