Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment: Maryland Legislates Universal Consideration for Pediatric Inpatients (S709)
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Legal briefing: POLST: physician orders for life-sustaining treatment.
This issue's "Legal Briefing" column covers recent legal developments involving POLST (physician orders for life-sustaining treatment.) POLST has been the subject of recent articles in JCE. It has been the subject of major policy reports and a recent New York Times editorial. And POLST has been the subject of significant legislative, regulatory, and policy attention over the past several months...
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Pediatric health care is practiced with the goal of promoting the best interests of the child. Treatment generally is rendered under a presumption in favor of sustaining life. However, in some circumstances, the balance of benefits and burdens to the child leads to an assessment that forgoing life-sustaining medical treatment (LSMT) is ethically supportable or advisable. Parents are given wide ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0885-3924
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2013.12.128