Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: a comparative study of the ethical reasoning of physicians and the general public. | Available online http content 1 2 1 R13 Research Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment a comparative study of the ethical reasoning of physicians and the general public Anders Rydvall1 and Niels Lynoe2 Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences Anaesthesiology University Hospital of Northern Sweden Lasarettsbacken SE-90185 Umeả Sweden department of Learning Informatics Management and Ethics Karolinska Institutet Berzelius vaeg 3 SE-17177 Stockholm Sweden Corresponding author Anders Rydvall Received 1 Jun 2007 Revisions requested 4 Jul 2007 Revisions received 16 Oct 2007 Published 15 Feb 2008 Critical Care 2008 12 R13 doi cc6786 This article is online at http content 12 1 R13 2008 Rydvall and Lynoe licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Background Our objective was to investigate whether a consensus exists between the general public and health care providers regarding the reasoning and values at stake on the subject of life-sustaining treatment. Methods A postal questionnaire was sent to a random sample of members of the adult population n 989 and to a random sample of intensive care doctors and neurosurgeons n 410 practicing in Sweden in 2004. The questionnaire was based on a case involving a severely ill patient and presented arguments for and against withholding and withdrawing treatment and providing treatment that might hasten death. Results Approximately 70 of the physicians and 51 of the general public responded. A majority of doctors stated that they would withhold treatment whereas a minority of the general public would do so the arguments forwarded for instance belief that the first task of
