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Should law have a role in end‐of‐life care?
Author(s) -
White B.,
Willmott L.,
Parker M.,
Cartwright C.,
Williams G.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2012.02883.x
Subject(s) - medicine , palliative care , end of life care , work (physics) , family medicine , law , nursing , political science , mechanical engineering , engineering
What do physicians think of law? Do they know the law?\udWhat role does it have in the provision of end-of-life\udcare? Physicians in New South Wales, Victoria and\udQueensland are being asked about these issues in a study\udby the Queensland University of Technology entitled\ud‘Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from\udadults who lack capacity: The role of law in medical practice’. This research aims to examine the role that law plays in decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment from adults who lack capacity