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The American Thoracic Society (ATS) approach to managing conscientious objections in the ICU, based on a clinician's belief that a requested medical service is medically inappropriate or futile

The American Thoracic Society (ATS) approach to managing conscientious objections in the ICU, based on a clinician's belief that a requested medical service is medically inappropriate or futile
An approach to managing conscientious objections based on a clinician's belief that a requested medical service is medically inappropriate or futile.
CO: conscientious objections; ICU: intensive care unit.
References:
  1. Medical futility in end-of-life care: report of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. JAMA 1999; 281:937.
  2. Consensus statement of the Society of Critical Care Medicine's Ethics Committee regarding futile and other possibly inadvisable treatments. Crit Care Med 1997; 25:887.

Reprinted with permission of the American Thoracic Society. Copyright © 2015 American Thoracic Society. Lewis-Newby M, Wicclair M, Pope T, et al. An Official American Thoracic Society Policy Statement: Managing Conscientious Objections in Intensive Care Medicine. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2015; 191:219. The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine is an official journal of the American Thoracic Society.

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