Medical Futility: Its Meaning and Ethical Implications

APACHE II-A Severity of Disease Classification System

1986 • 12,607 citations

THE POWERFUL PLACEBO

1955 • 1,781 citations

The Importance of Beta, the Type II Error and Sample Size in the Design and Interpretation of the Randomized Control Trial

1978 • 1,634 citations

An Evaluation of Outcome from Intensive Care in Major Medical Centers

1986 • 1,203 citations

Survival after Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Hospital

1983 • 868 citations

The Physician's Responsibility toward Hopelessly Ill Patients

1984 • 443 citations

In-Hospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

1988 • 419 citations

Must We Always Use CPR?

1987 • 396 citations

Outcomes of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Elderly

1989 • 374 citations

Who Defines Futility?

1988 • 310 citations

Ethics and Communication in Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders

1988 • 272 citations

The illusion of futility in clinical practice

1989 • 261 citations

The Therapeutic Revolution: Medicine, Meaning, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America

1977 • 221 citations

Why Saying No to Patients in the United States Is So Hard

1986 • 187 citations

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

1978 • 123 citations

Survival after Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Babies of Very Low Birth Weight

1988 • 122 citations

Ethical Decisions in Discontinuing Mechanical Ventilation

1988 • 97 citations

Results of cardiac resuscitation in 552 patients

1967 • 93 citations

Autonomy for Burned Patients When Survival Is Unprecedented

1977 • 80 citations

The persistent vegetative state: the medical reality (getting the facts straight).

1988 • 70 citations

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care

1989 • 41 citations

Ethics at the end of life

1986 • 36 citations

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation of the Elderly

1984 • 25 citations

Futile feeding at the end of life: Family virtues and treatment decisions

1987 • 20 citations

Continued Treatment of the Fatally Ill for the Benefit of Others

1988 • 15 citations

What does life support support?

1987 • 10 citations

Anencephalic infants and special relationships

1990 • 7 citations