In facing with TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS, many ethical issues emerges such as patient s
information about the disease and getting patient's idea about supportive and curative …

Background Coping with end-of-life issues is a major challenge for governments and health
systems. Despite progress in legislation, many barriers exist to its full implementation. This …

Background Clinical ethics support is a form of preventive ethics aimed at mediating ethics-
related conflicts and managing ethical issues arising in the healthcare setting. However …

요약 2016 년 [호스피스ㆍ완화의료 및 임종 과정에 있는 환자의 연명의료 결정에 관한 법률
(이하, 연명의료법)] 이 제정된 후 시행령 및 시행규칙의 정비를 거쳐 2018 년에 시행될 …

The law has a clear role to play in supporting patients and their substitute decision makers
(SDMs) to be involved in end-of-life (EOL) decision making. Although existing literature …

Few areas of medical ethics raise such strong and diverse views as issues concerned with
the end of life. National debates flare over concerns such as euthanasia and advance …

Materials and Methods: Questionnaire based survey among consenting patients and
physicians. Results: The majority of our physicians and patients did not support active …

As medical technology advances and it becomes increasingly possible to keep people alive
who previously would have died, medical professionals and the public have been exercised …

Objective: To estimate the proportion of medical end‐of‐life decisions in Australia, describe
the characteristics of such decisions and compare these data with medical end‐of‐life …

Dartmouth Medical School's Department of Community and Family Medicine, the editor, and
the authors of the Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics are pleased to grant use of these …