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dc.contributor.author | Willmott, L. | - |
dc.contributor.author | White, B. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Smith, M. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wilkinson, D. | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Medical Journal of Australia, 2014; 201(9):545-547 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1326-5377 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0025-729X | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2440/89121 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Intractable disputes about withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from adults who lack capacity are rare but challenging. Judicial resolution may be needed in some of these cases. A central concept for judicial (and clinical) decision making in this area is a patient's "best interests". Yet what this term means is contested. There is an emerging Supreme Court jurisprudence that sheds light on when life-sustaining treatment will, or will not, be judged to be in a patient's best interests. Treatment that is either futile or overly burdensome is not in a patient's best interests. Although courts will consider patient and family wishes, they have generally deferred to the views of medical practitioners about treatment decisions. | - |
dc.description.statementofresponsibility | Lindy Willmott, Ben White, Malcolm K Smith, Dominic J C Wilkinson | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | MJA Group Australia | - |
dc.rights | Copyright status unknown | - |
dc.source.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja13.10874 | - |
dc.subject | Humans | - |
dc.subject | Medical Futility | - |
dc.subject | Life Support Care | - |
dc.subject | Terminal Care | - |
dc.subject | Withholding Treatment | - |
dc.subject | Mental Competency | - |
dc.subject | Decision Making | - |
dc.subject | Quality of Life | - |
dc.subject | Advance Directives | - |
dc.subject | Proxy | - |
dc.subject | Australia | - |
dc.title | Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in a patient's best interests: Australian judicial deliberations | - |
dc.type | Journal article | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5694/mja13.10874 | - |
pubs.publication-status | Published | - |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 7 Paediatrics publications |
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