Background: Discharge Against Medical Advice (DAMA) is an obnoxious reality and dissatisfying event to both ends - patient healthcare provider. It’s pertinent that periodical survey at single or multicentre be done identify the predictors seek solutions suggest recommendations. Aim Objectives: of this study was analyze DAMA cases. Objectives were find out prevalence Methodology: A prospective c...

OBJECTIVES Most guidelines consider FDG PET-CT to detect occult extra-pulmonary disease prior to lung metastasectomy. A cost-effectiveness analysis, using a Markov model over a 10 year period, was performed to compare two different surveillance programs, either PET-CT or whole-body CT, in patients with suspected pulmonary metastasised melanoma. METHODS Data from published studies provided pro...

BACKGROUND The criteria for refraining from cardiopulmonary resuscitation in palliative care cancer patients are based on patients' right to refuse treatment and the duty of the treating personnel not to exacerbate their suffering and not to administer futile treatment. When is cardiopulmonary resuscitation futile in these patients? METHOD Systematic literature searches were conducted in PubM...

The multiple futile cycle is an important building block in networks of chemical reactions arising in molecular biology. A typical process which it describes is the addition of n phosphate groups to a protein. It can be modelled by a system of ordinary differential equations depending on parameters. The special case n = 2 is called the dual futile cycle. The main result of this paper is a proof...

: Medical futility is one of the most common controversial topics in medicine, medical ethics, and philosophy medicine. Every day, doctors are dealing with patients who a condition that must have decision about requested futile treatment their own beliefs, opinions, different demands. This an important issue be taught during teaching courses. Therefore, it good to provide general policies for h...

a group more predisposed to agree with the clinicians in their judgments about what constitutes inappropriate care. Second, at the same time that the Texas law grants this sweeping authority to ethics committees, it precludes any possibility of an appeal to the judicial system. Judges are authorized only to grant extensions of the decision (and even then only if necessary to find an alternative...