Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapy.
D000328:Adult; D016223:Advance Directives; D000533:Altruism; D026686:Beneficence; D016638:Critical Illness; D003657:Decision Making; D017041:Ethics Committees; D028741:Ethics Committees, Clinical; D005066:Euthanasia, Passive; D005190:Family; D005610:Freedom; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D018447:Medical Futility; D016743:Mental Competency; D016134:Organizational Policy; D010358:Patient Participation; D010361:Patients; D018458:Persistent Vegetative State; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010820:Physicians; D012015:Reference Standards; D012306:Risk; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012945:Social Values; D012952:Societies; D020458:Third-Party Consent; D016312:Treatment Refusal; D028761:Withholding Treatment
American Thoracic Society; Death and Euthanasia