End-of-life care in the French ICU: Impact of Claeys-Leonetti law on decision to withhold or withdraw life-supportive therapy

Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2019 Dec;38(6):569-570. doi: 10.1016/j.accpm.2019.10.013.
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Keywords: Claeys-Leonetti law; End-of-life care; Withholding and withdrawing therapy.

Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Advance Directives
  • Clinical Decision-Making
  • Critical Care / ethics
  • Critical Care / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Deep Sedation
  • Dissent and Disputes
  • France
  • Humans
  • Intensive Care Units / standards
  • Medical Futility
  • Palliative Care / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Palliative Care / methods
  • Patients / psychology
  • Physician's Role
  • Terminal Care / ethics
  • Terminal Care / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Terminal Care / trends
  • Third-Party Consent
  • Treatment Refusal
  • Withholding Treatment / ethics
  • Withholding Treatment / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Withholding Treatment / trends