How should clinicians respond to requests for potentially inappropriate treatment?

Intensive Care Med. 2016 Mar;42(3):422-425. doi: 10.1007/s00134-015-4192-4. Epub 2016 Jan 13.

Authors

Gabriel T Bosslet¹, Jozef Kesecioglu², Douglas B White³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, Occupational, and Sleep Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, 1120 W. Michigan Street, CL285, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA. gbosslet@iu.edu.
² Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center-Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
³ Critical Care Medicine, Center for Bioethics and Health Law, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

PMID: 26762106
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-015-4192-4

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Communication
Consensus
Critical Care / ethics*
Diagnosis, Differential
Dissent and Disputes*
Ethics, Medical*
Humans
Life Support Care / ethics*
Physicians / psychology