Reports on end-of-life care
By: American Medical Association, Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs.
Publisher: American Medical Association
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 58
Subjects: Terminal Care -- standards; Ethics, Medical -- standards; Resuscitation Orders -- standards; Decision Making
Other titles: CEJA reports on end-of-life care
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Do-not-resuscitate orders (Dec. 1987).; title: Euthanasia (June 1988).; title: Persistent vegetative state and the decision to withdraw or withhold life support (June 1989).; title: Guidelines for the appropriate use of do-not-resuscitate orders (Dec. 1990).; title: Decisions near the end of life (June 1991).; title: Decisions to forgo life-sustaining treatment for incompetent patients (June 1991).; title: Physician-assisted suicide (June 1994).; title: Medical futility in end-of-life care (Dec. 1996).; title: Optimal use of orders-not-to-intervene and advance directives (June 1996).