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Tackling medical futility in Texas.
n engl j med 357;1 www.nejm.org july 5, 2007 was an 18-month-old boy who had Leigh’s disease, a progressive and fatal neurometabolic disorder. He had been on life support in the intensive care unit for 5 months. The hospital had invoked the Texas Advance Directives Act, which authorized it to withdraw life support if an ethics committee had determined that further life support was medically ina...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
سال: 1894
ISSN: 0098-7484
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1894.02421080034009