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| The Appleton International Conference: developing guidelines for decisions to forgo life-prolonging medical treatment | | Author(s) | John M Stanley |
| Corporate Author | Institute of Medical Ethics; British Medical Association - BMA |
| Journal title | Journal of Medical Ethics supplement, vol 18, September 1992 |
| Pages | 22 pp |
| Keywords | Medical care ; Terminal care ; Social ethics ; Standards of provision. |
| Annotation | The Appleton Conference Project began in 1987 with an international working conference for practising clinicians regarding decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment. This document presents the ethical background and the guidelines in four parts. Part I concerns decisions involving patients who have decision-making capacity, or patients who have executed an advance directive (or living will) before losing this capacity. Part II deals with decisions involving patients who have lost the capacity to make decisions and who have not executed an advance directive. Part III addresses decisions involving neonates and other patients who have never achieved decision-making capacity. Part IV, discusses decisions to forgo life-sustaining treatment under conditions of scarcity. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980108220 A |
| Classmark | LK: LV: TQ: 583 * |
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