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1. Changes in forgoing life-sustaining treatments in the United State: Concern for the future
Changes in Forgoing Life-Sustaining Treatments in the United States: Concern...occurred in the forgoing of life-sustaining treatments. This commentary focuses...patient's right to refuse life-sustaining treatments. This right was given to...
May 1, 1996; Mayo Clinic Proceedings

2. Stability of choices about life-sustaining treatments. (adapted from the Annuals of Internal Medicine, April 1, 1994) (Tips from Other Journals)
...expressed wishes about life-sustaining treatments. A patient may provide...patients' choices regarding life-sustaining treatments and to determine what factors...their desires regarding life-sustaining treatments, whether or not they have...
September 1, 1994; American Family Physician

3. Address of John Paul II to the Participants in the International Congress on "Life Sustaining Treatments and the Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas"
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, 1.1 cordially greet all of you who took part in the international congress "Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas." I wish to extend a special greeting to Bishop...
January 1, 2004; Human Life Review

4. Life-sustaining treatments and vegetative state. (Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas)
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, 1. I cordially greet all of you who took part in the International Congress: Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas. I wish to extend a special greeting to Bishop...
September 22, 2004; Issues in Law & Medicine

5. Did John Paul II's allocution on life-sustaining treatments revise tradition?(QUAESTIO DISPUTATA)
...Thomas Shannon and James Waiter's article (1) in this journal that John Paul II's March 20, 2004, allocution, Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State, significantly altered the traditional Catholic teaching on the use of artificial nutrition...
March 1, 2006; Theological Studies

6. MICHENER REFUSING LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENTS
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October 12, 1997; ABC World News Sunday

7. JAMES MICHENER STOPS LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENTS
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October 13, 1997; ABC World News This Morning

8. Following advance directives. (Advance Care Planning: Priorities for Ethical and Empirical Research)(Special Supplement)
...patients, wishes about life-sustaining treatments are not entirely stable...utilizing newly developed, life-sustaining treatments to prolong life. At the...dampened the urge to use life-sustaining treatments indiscriminately at the...
November 1, 1994; The Hastings Center Report

9. ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY MEANS OF TREATMENT
Abstract There are times when life-sustaining treatments can be legitimately withheld...that there are times when life-sustaining treatments can be withheld or withdrawn...that guides decisions when life-sustaining treatments can legitimately be forgone...
October 1, 2007; Ethics & Medicine

10. UC San Diego Team Finds That Ethics Consultations Reduce Futile End-of-Life Treatments.
...reduction in non-beneficial life sustaining treatments for dying patients in hospital...two fewer days receiving life-sustaining treatments, such as mechanical ventilation...reduction in non-beneficial life sustaining treatments. These earlier results...
September 2, 2003; AScribe Health News Service