The ethics of offering futile treatment

The opportunity cost of futile treatment in the ICU*.

OBJECTIVE When used to prolong life without achieving a benefit meaningful to the patient, critical care is often considered "futile." Although futile treatment is acknowledged as a misuse of resources by many, no study has evaluated its opportunity cost, that is, how it affects care for others. Our objective was to evaluate delays in care when futile treatment is provided. DESIGN For 3 month...

etiology, significance, diagnosis and treatment of bruxiam

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the effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)

cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...

The Complexity of Futile Questioning

Instances of the futile questioning problem abound in applications, especially, in the area of artificial intelligence. The problem can be represented by a particular quantified Boolean formula. A variation of the problem includes also costs for the logic variables. Typically, the problem is simplified instead of solved directly, which may lead to inaccurate results. Alternatively, the problem ...

The ethics of refusing medical treatment.