Dilemmas in Intensive Care Medicine: An Ethical and Legal Analysis

A Theory of Justice

1971 • 20,681 citations

On death and dying.

1975 • 5,114 citations

APACHE—acute physiology and chronic health evaluation: a physiologically based classification system

1981 • 2,152 citations

A Definition of Irreversible Coma

1968 • 1,321 citations

The Physician's Responsibility toward Hopelessly Ill Patients

1984 • 443 citations

Prognosis in Nontraumatic Coma

1981 • 396 citations

Guidelines for the Determination of Death

1981 • 389 citations

High-Cost Users of Medical Care

1980 • 346 citations

Orders Not to Resuscitate

1976 • 281 citations

Medical Intensive Care: Indications, Interventions, and Outcomes

1980 • 268 citations

Arrogance

1980 • 217 citations

Must Patients Always Be Given Food and Water?

1983 • 170 citations

Cost Containment and the Physician

1985 • 156 citations

The Physician's Obligation to Prolong Life: A Medical Duty without Classical Roots

1978 • 123 citations

The Do-Not-Resuscitate Order in a Teaching Hospital

1982 • 119 citations

Frequency and Clinical Description of High-Cost Patients in 17 Acute-Care Hospitals

1979 • 110 citations

Medicine versus Economics

1985 • 102 citations

Personal Directions for Care at the End of Life

1976 • 100 citations

Variability in Physician Bioethical Decision-Making

1982 • 99 citations

Brain Death—An Opposing Viewpoint

1979 • 95 citations

Rationing Hospital Care

1984 • 94 citations

Ethical and Policy Issues in the Procurement of Cadaver Organs for Transplantation

1984 • 91 citations

Brain Death with Prolonged Somatic Survival

1982 • 90 citations

Ethical Issues in Pediatric Surgery: A National Survey of Pediatricians and Pediatric Surgeons

1977 • 90 citations

Assisted Ventilation for Patients With Cystic Fibrosis

1978 • 89 citations

Mongolism, Parental Desires, and the Right to Life

1973 • 81 citations

Autonomy for Burned Patients When Survival Is Unprecedented

1977 • 80 citations

Pediatricians' attitudes affecting decision-making in defective newborns.

1977 • 79 citations

Pediatricians' Attitudes Affecting Decision-Making in Defective Newborns

1977 • 73 citations

Psychiatric Consultation Masking Moral Dilemmas in Medicine

1982 • 63 citations

The Duty of Using Artificial Means of Preserving Life

1950 • 62 citations

Contemporary Biomedical Ethics

1980 • 48 citations

The role of an intensive care unit in a cancer center. An analysis of 1035 critically ill patients treated for life-threatening complications editorial

1976 • 42 citations

Organ Shortage Clouds New Transplant Era

1983 • 37 citations

The use of intensive care: new research initiatives and their implications for national health policy.

1983 • 36 citations

Organ Procurement: It's Not in the Cards

1984 • 35 citations

Defining Appropriate Medical Care: Providing Nutrients and Hydration for the Dying

1985 • 34 citations

“Code” or “No Code”: A Nonlegal Opinion

1979 • 34 citations

Medical paternalism and the rule of law: a reply to Dr. Relman.

1979 • 27 citations

Infant Doe Regulations and the Absolute Requirement to Use Nourishment and Fluids for the Dying Infant

1983 • 22 citations

The Use of Intensive Care: New Research Initiatives and Their Implications for National Health Policy

1983 • 22 citations

Court Responses to Withholding or Withdrawing Artificial Nutrition and Fluids

1985 • 20 citations

Court Intervention and the Diminution of Patients' Rights: The Case of Brother Joseph Fox

1980 • 11 citations

ORGANIZATION AND OUTCOME OF CRITICAL CARE

1978 • 8 citations

Comments and Recommendations on the “Infant Doe” Proposed Regulations

1983 • 8 citations

The 'student doctor' and a wary patient. Commentary.

1982 • 7 citations

A Structural Analysis of the Physician-Patient Relationship in No-Code Decisionmaking

1983 • 5 citations

Withholding of life-supporting treatment from the mentally incompetent.

1978 • 4 citations

Discussion on pressure solution

1978 • 3 citations

The ethical dilemma of resuscitation.

1976 • 3 citations

The 'No Code Blue' issue: Missouri is not Massachusetts.

1979 • 2 citations