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NON-BENEFICIAL TREATMENT [1 record]

Record 1 2016-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
  • Health Law
CONT

We do not believe that there should be any need to continue futile treatment, "futile" being defined as having almost no possibility of succeeding.

OBS

Futility can be understood as medical treatment that is seen to be non-beneficial because it is believed to offer no reasonable hope of recovery or improvement of the patient's condition.

Key term(s)
  • non-beneficial treatment

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux
  • Droit de la santé
CONT

Il est donc souhaitable de ne pas proposer un traitement qui «n'offre aucun espoir raisonnable de guérison ou d'amélioration ou quelque avantage» (traitement futile).

OBS

La futilité médicale désigne une intervention dont on estime qu'elle ne vaut pas la peine d'être réalisée, parce que le médecin évalue comme insuffisants les bénéfices prévisibles.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medicina, Higiene y Salud
  • Tratamiento sin cirugía
  • Derecho de salud
DEF

Tratamiento o acto médico cuya aplicación está desaconsejada ya que es clínicamente ineficaz, no mejora el pronóstico, los síntomas, ni las enfermedades intercurrentes del paciente, o bien porque de manera previsible producirá perjuicios personales, familiares, económicos o sociales desproporcionados al beneficio que se espera.

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