Futility guidelines: a resource for decisions about withholding and withdrawing treatment.
D016223:Advance Directives; D003142:Communication; D032921:Consensus; D003657:Decision Making; D017041:Ethics Committees; D028741:Ethics Committees, Clinical; D005066:Euthanasia, Passive; D005190:Family; D005610:Freedom; D006040:Goals; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D018447:Medical Futility; D018529:Nutritional Support; D016134:Organizational Policy; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010361:Patients; D018458:Persistent Vegetative State; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010820:Physicians; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011379:Prognosis; D011640:Public Policy; D011788:Quality of Life; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012306:Risk; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012935:Social Justice; D012945:Social Values; D019452:Terminally Ill; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D020458:Third-Party Consent; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D016312:Treatment Refusal; D014481:United States; D028761:Withholding Treatment
Death and Euthanasia; VACO (Veterans Affairs Central Office) Bioethics Committee