Ethics Committee Core Curriculum

Medical Futility

Stephen Wear

1. Developing and Implementing a Medical Futility Policy: One Hospital's Experience by Stephen Wear, Ph.D., Benjamin Phillips, R.N., Sally Shimmel, R.N., John Banas, M.D. from University of Pittsburgh Consortium Ethics Program
2. Medical Futility in End-of-Life Care was adopted at the Interim Meeting of the House of Delegates on December 10, 1996.
3. Commenting on Medical Futility from Risk Management and End-of-life Care (Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions, Inc) Issue Editor: Denise A. Bisaillon; Vol. 16, No. 2, May 1995
4. Caplan AL. Odds and Ends: Trust and the Debate over Medical Futility (Editorial). Ann Int Med 1996; 125:688-689.
5. Schneiderman LJ, Jecker NS, Jonsen AR. Medical Futility: Response to Critiques. Ann Int Med 1996; 125:669-674.