Article info
PDFClinical ethics
Paper
Reasons doctors provide futile treatment at the end of life: a qualitative study
- Correspondence to Dr Lindy Willmott, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, 2 George Street, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia; l.willmott{at}qut.edu.au
Citation
Reasons doctors provide futile treatment at the end of life: a qualitative study
Publication history
- Received January 4, 2016
- Revised April 14, 2016
- Accepted April 24, 2016
- First published May 17, 2016.
Online issue publication
July 26, 2016
Article Versions
- Previous version (26 July 2016).
- You are viewing the most recent version of this article.
Request permissions
If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.
Copyright information
Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/
Other content recommended for you
- Futile life-sustaining treatment in the intensive care unit – nurse and physician experiences: meta-synthesis
- Incidence, duration and cost of futile treatment in end-of-life hospital admissions to three Australian public-sector tertiary hospitals: a retrospective multicentre cohort study
- Doctors’ perceptions of how resource limitations relate to futility in end-of-life decision making: a qualitative analysis
- Evaluating a patient's request for life-prolonging treatment: an ethical framework
- Factors associated with non-beneficial treatments in end of life hospital admissions: a multicentre retrospective cohort study in Australia
- Medical futility at the end of life: the perspectives of intensive care and palliative care clinicians
- COVID-19 pandemic, the scarcity of medical resources, community-centred medicine and discrimination against persons with disabilities
- Study on factors inducing workplace violence in Chinese hospitals based on the broken window theory: a cross-sectional study
- The best interests of persistently vegetative patients: to die rather that to live?
- The development of “medical futility”: towards a procedural approach based on the role of the medical profession