ArticleJournal of medical ethics2003
Should patient consent be required to write a do not resuscitate order?
Article in Journal of medical ethics, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- "Do not resuscitate" order and end-of-life treatment in a cohort of deceased in a Norwegian University Hospital.Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica · 2022Observational
- Experience with a Revised Hospital Policy on Not Offering Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2022Article
- Is There Ever a Role for the Unilateral Do Not Attempt Resuscitation Order in Pediatric Care?Journal of pain and symptom management · 2018Article
- Translating into Practice Cancer Patients' Views on Do-Not-Resuscitate Decision-Making.Cancers · 2016Article
- Deciding together? Best interests and shared decision-making in paediatric intensive care.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2014Article
- Withholding and withdrawing life support in critical care settings: ethical issues concerning consent.Journal of medical ethics · 2007Review
- CPR or DNR? End-of-life decision in Korean cancer patients: a single center's experience.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2006Article
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Abstract
Consent ought to be required to withhold treatment that is in a patient's best interests to receive. Do not resuscitate (DNR) orders are examples of best interests assessments at the end of life. Such assessments represent value judgments that cannot be validly ascertained without patient input. If patient input results in that patient dissenting to the DNR order then individual physicians are not justified in overriding such dissent. To do so would give unjustifiable primacy to the values of the individual physician. Therefore patient consent is effectively required to write a DNR order. Patient dissent to a DNR order should trigger a fair process mechanism to resolve the dispute.
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