Moral dilemmas and conflicts concerning patients in a vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: shared or non-shared decision making? A qualitative study of the professional perspective in two moral case deliberations

Moral dilemmas and conflicts concerning patients in a vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: shared or non-shared decision making? A qualitative study of the professional perspective in two moral case deliberations

Abstract Background Patients in a vegetative state/ unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (VS/UWS) pose ethical dilemmas to those involved. Many conflicts occur between professionals and families of these patients. In the Netherlands physicians are supposed to withdraw life sustaining treatment once rec...

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Main Authors: Conny A. M. F. H. Span-Sluyter, Jan C. M. Lavrijsen, Evert van Leeuwen, Raymond T. C. M. Koopmans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-02-01
Series:BMC Medical Ethics
Subjects:
Vegetative state/ unresponsive wakefulness syndrome
Conflict
Ethics
Family
Moral case deliberation
Shared decision making
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12910-018-0247-8

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