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The Messiha and Schiavo cases: third-party ethical and legal interventions in futile care disputes

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Authors

Stewart, Cameron

Faunce, Thomas

Publisher

Australasian Medical Association

Abstract

• Relatives may increasingly demand that an incompetent patient's treatment be continued indefinitely, despite clinical advice that it is technically "futile" (offering no reasonable prospect of return to a meaningful quality of life). Third-party inter

Keywords

Keywords: article; Australia; brain injury; case report; clinical practice; competence; conflict; court; female; frequency analysis; human; jurisprudence; law suit; male; medical decision making; medical ethics; medicolegal aspect; patient care; politics; quality o

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/81403

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Medical Journal of Australia

Type

Journal article

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