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Medical futility
 — transforming a clinical concept into legal and social policies
Author(s)Ronald Cranford
Journal titleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 42, no 8, August 1994
Pagespp 894-898
KeywordsHealth services ; Policy ; Dying.
AnnotationDiscusses the process by which medical standards become legal and social policy, and why this will be difficult in the case of medical futility - the provision of intensive health care which has very little chance of success.
Accession NumberCPA-941219024 A
ClassmarkL: QAD: CX

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