Avoiding medical futility in patients dying in a hospital: a position statement of the Polish Society of Internal Medicine Working Group on Medical Futility at Internal Medicine Units. Part 1: A dying patient who is not legally incapacitated but is incapable of making informed decisions regarding treatment that is considered medically futile
1 Center for Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland; Fifth Military Clinical Hospital with Polyclinic in Krakow, Kraków, Poland. wojciech.szczeklik@uj.edu.pl
2 Department of Palliative Care, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, Poland
3 Department of Humanities and Social Medicine, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
4 Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Żyrardów, Warsaw, Poland
5 Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Kanada
6 Polish Institute of Evidence Based Medicine, Kraków, Poland
7 Department of Palliative Medicine, Palium Hospice, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
8 Catholic Academy in Warsaw – Collegium Bobolanum, Warsaw, Poland
9 Interfaculty Institute of Bioethics, The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Kraków, Poland
10 Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
11 Department of Cardiology of the Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland
12 Center for Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
13 Fifth Military Clinical Hospital with Polyclinic in Krakow, Kraków, Poland
14 Center for Pain Treatment and Palliative Care, Clinical University Hospital in Wroclaw, Wrocław, Poland
15 Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdańsk, Poland
16 Department of Internal and Metabolic Diseases, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland