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Ethics Article of the Month: Foregoing Treatment at the End of Life Foregoing Treatment at the End of Life, Dr Paulina Taboada, Profesor Centro de Bioetica Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Alameda 340 Correo Central 1 Santiago, Chile. The April 2002 number of the Journal of Medical Ethics brings an article on the "Factors affecting physician’s decisions to forgo life-sustaining treatments in terminal care" (Hinka, et. al., J Med Ethics 2002; 28: 109 – 114). A questionnaire-based survey was performed in Finland to study the variability in decisions to withdraw or withhold specific life-supporting treatments in terminal care. The study intended to evaluate also possible associations between treatment-decisions and other variables, such as gender, specialty, experience, life values, sociodemographic data, etc. Full Article: http://www.hospicecare.com/Ethics/monthlypiece/eithics2002/pom_june.htm


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