作者
Lindy Willmott, Benjamin White, Cindy Gallois, Malcolm Parker, Nicholas Graves, Sarah Winch, Leonie Kaye Callaway, Nicole Shepherd, Eliana Close
发表日期
2016/8/1
期刊
Journal of medical ethics
卷号
42
期号
8
页码范围
496-503
出版商
Institute of Medical Ethics
简介
Objective
Futile treatment, which by definition cannot benefit a patient, is undesirable. This research investigated why doctors believe that treatment that they consider to be futile is sometimes provided at the end of a patient's life.
Design
Semistructured in-depth interviews.
Setting
Three large tertiary public hospitals in Brisbane, Australia.
Participants
96 doctors from emergency, intensive care, palliative care, oncology, renal medicine, internal medicine, respiratory medicine, surgery, cardiology, geriatric medicine and medical administration departments. Participants were recruited using purposive maximum variation sampling.
Results
Doctors attributed the provision of futile treatment to a wide range of inter-related factors. One was the characteristics of treating doctors, including their orientation towards curative treatment, discomfort or inexperience with death and dying, concerns about legal risk and poor communication …
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