Law establishes a framework for making decisions about withholding and withdrawing life-
sustaining treatment from adults who lack capacity. However, to what extent do doctors know …

Objectives To determine the role played by law in medical specialists' decision-making
about withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from adults who lack capacity …

This is the second article in a series of three that examines the legal role of medical
professionals in decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment from adults who …

This is the first article in a series of three that examines the legal role of medical
professionals in decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment from adults who …

The law regulates many aspects of decision-making around the withholding and
withdrawing of life-sustaining medical treatment from adults who lack decision-making …

What do physicians think of law? Do they know the law? What role does it have in the
provision of end-of-life care? Physicians in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland are …

This is the final article in a series of three that examines the legal role of medical
professionals in decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment from adults who …

Decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment (WWLST) are a necessary and
legitimate part of mainstream medical practice in Australia and precede almost 40,000 adult …

Objectives: To examine doctors' level of knowledge of the law on withholding and
withdrawing life‐sustaining treatment from adults who lack decision‐making capacity, and …

Background Law is increasingly involved in clinical practice, particularly at the end of life, but
undergraduate and postgraduate education in this area remains unsystematic. We …