… Commission report on decisions to forego lifesustaining therapy, … to be made in a context
that seems both legal and also not … real ethical challenge of decisions to forego life-sustaining …

… ultimately rest with competent patients-the Commission in this Report examines the situations
in which a patient's choice to forego lifesustaining therapy may be limited on moral or legal …

… questions are under what condition this is ethically justified, … Another reports that the relatives
wanted the treatment … been informed of the decision to forego life-sustaining treatment. In 7 …

… life-sustaining treatment is discussed. In the second part of the paper the authors show how
these theoretical-ethical … no consensus among either ethical, legal, or psychological experts …

… The President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and … report
on the ethical, medical, and legal issues involved in decisions regarding life-sustaining treatment. …

… with stringent ethical principles and legal requirements ( 14, 15 )… We report the first
prospective study that investigated all … We believe that this knowledge should be used in the best …

… the medical care team should have … life-sustaining treatments, most philosophical and legal
commentators find no important ethical or legal distinction between not instituting a treatment …

… , and that this practice was ethically acceptable and clinically … With 126 ICUs at 107 of the
167 sites (64%) reporting, we … we can and should recommend that life-sustaining treatment be …

… deciding to withdraw treatment once initiated is ethically and legally more often wrong or more
difficult than deciding … patient, constitutes the topic of this report. In addition, two alternative …

… self-reports by internists; … should be educated about the ethical and legal obligations of
adhering to patients' wishes regarding life-sustaining treatments, along with the ethical and legal …