Withholding and Withdrawal of Life Support from Critically Ill Patients

Survival after Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Hospital

1983 • 868 citations

The Physician's Responsibility toward Hopelessly Ill Patients

1984 • 443 citations

Must We Always Use CPR?

1987 • 396 citations

Guidelines for the Determination of Death

1981 • 389 citations

Initiating and Withdrawing Life Support

1988 • 287 citations

Failure of Intensive Care Unit Support to Influence Mortality From Pneumococcal Bacteremia

1983 • 263 citations

Do-not-resuscitate orders for critically ill patients in the hospital. How are they used and what is their impact?

1986 • 250 citations

Guidelines for the Determination of Death

1982 • 245 citations

Death by Pulmonary Artery Flow-Directed Catheter (editorial)

1987 • 239 citations

WHO SHALL LIVE? Health, Economics and Social Choice

1976 • 232 citations

Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders for Critically III Patients in the Hospital

1986 • 168 citations

The Use and Implications of Do Not Resuscitate Orders in Intensive Care Units

1986 • 156 citations

Standards and guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiac care.

1986 • 139 citations

'Do Not Resuscitate' Orders

1985 • 136 citations

Optimum Care for Hopelessly Ill Patients

1976 • 125 citations

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

1978 • 123 citations

Personal Directions for Care at the End of Life

1976 • 100 citations

Do-Not-Resuscitate Decisions in a Community Hospital

1986 • 98 citations

'Do Not Resuscitate' Decisions

1985 • 96 citations

The Living Will

1983 • 95 citations

The Legal Status of Consent Obtained From Families of Adult Patients to Withhold or Withdraw Treatment

1987 • 87 citations

Decision Making for Incompetent Patients by Designated Proxy

1984 • 75 citations

Technology under Medicare Diagnosis-related Groups Prospective Payment

1985 • 61 citations

Treatment decisions in the mentally impaired.

1988 • 34 citations

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

1985 • 34 citations

THE DEFINITION OF DEATH: ETHICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND POLICY CONFUSION

1978 • 31 citations

The Saikewicz Decision

1978 • 28 citations

Treatment Decisions in the Mentally Impaired

1987 • 23 citations

Withholding or withdrawing extraordinary life support. Optimizing rights and limiting liability.

1984 • 21 citations

Withholding of life-sustaining treatment from the terminally ill, incompetent patient: who decides? Part II.

1982 • 16 citations

Dilemmas in Intensive Care Medicine: An Ethical and Legal Analysis

1986 • 12 citations

What does life support support?

1987 • 10 citations

Value of the Living Will

1986 • 8 citations

Withholding of Life-Sustaining Treatment From the Terminally III, Incompetent Patient: Who Decides?

1982 • 7 citations

Withholding of Life-Sustaining Treatment From the Terminally III, Incompetent Patient: Who Decides?

1982 • 4 citations

Legal Issues in Critical Care Medicine

1986 • 4 citations

Critical care medicine in the United States: past performance and future possibilities.

1986 • 3 citations