Importance Little data exist on end-of-life care practices in intensive care units (ICUs) in
Asia. Objective To describe physicians' attitudes toward withholding and withdrawal of life …

Purpose Prior studies identified high variability in prevalence of withdrawal of life-sustaining
treatment in the ICU. Variability in end-of-life decision-making has been reported at many …

Purpose To compare the attitudes of physicians towards withholding and withdrawing life-
sustaining treatments in intensive care units (ICUs) in low-middle-income Asian countries …

Background Many critically ill patients who die will do so after a decision has been made to
withhold/withdraw life-sustaining therapy. The objective of this study was to document the …

Importance Although the end-of-life care patients receive is known to vary across nations,
regions, and centers, these differences are best explored within a group of patients with …

Despite an ethical and legal consensus regarding the right of patients or their surrogates to
refuse life-prolonging therapy, surveys show that dying patients in hospitals in the United …

Objective: To evaluate the attitudes of critical care professionals concerning forgoing life-
sustaining treatments in critically ill patients. Design and Setting: Questionnaires (n= 1148) …

Importance End-of-life decisions occur daily in intensive care units (ICUs) around the world,
and these practices could change over time. Objective To determine the changes in end-of …

Decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment (LST) precede the majority of ICU
deaths. Although professional guidelines generally treat the two as ethically equivalent …

Background Few data are available about physicians' decisions in regard to withholding or
withdrawing life-sustaining measures. We therefore studied internists' views on this subject …