Treatments of last resort: informed consent and the diffusion of new technology.
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; D000533:Altruism; D026686:Beneficence; D020811:Biomedical Technology; D003068:Coercion; D009358:Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003657:Decision Making; D030881:Disclosure; D015507:Drugs, Investigational; D004864:Equipment and Supplies; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D005610:Freedom; D013502:General Surgery; D033161:Government Regulation; D006321:Heart; D006331:Heart Diseases; D006805:Human Experimentation; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007258:Informed Consent; D007603:Jurisprudence; D007674:Kidney Diseases; D008318:Malpractice; D016377:Organ Transplantation; D033282:Parental Consent; D026706:Paternalism; D005791:Patient Care; D010358:Patient Participation; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010820:Physicians; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D012015:Reference Standards; D012106:Research; D012306:Risk; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D019452:Terminally Ill; D036302:Therapeutic Human Experimentation; D020458:Third-Party Consent; D014481:United States; D014486:United States Food and Drug Administration; D028761:Withholding Treatment; D015974:Wrongful Life
Biomedical and Behavioral Research; Health Care and Public Health