Moral Distress Amongst American Physician Trainees Regarding Futile Treatments at the End of Life: A Qualitative Study

Background Ethical challenges are common in end of life care; the uncertainty of prognosis and the ethically permissible boundaries of treatment create confusion and conflict about the balance between benefits and burdens experienced by patients. Objective We asked physician trainees in internal med...

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Published in:Journal of general internal medicine : JGIM 2016-01, Vol.31 (1), p.93-99
Main Authors: Dzeng, Elizabeth, Colaianni, Alessandra, Roland, Martin, Levine, David, Kelly, Michael P., Barclay, Stephen, Smith, Thomas J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitude of Health Personnel
Clinical Competence
Communication
Data processing
End of life
Ethics
Female
Health care facilities
Humans
Internal Medicine
Male
Medical Futility - psychology
Medical personnel
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Morals
Original Research
Patients
Physicians - psychology
Qualitative analysis
Qualitative Research
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Terminal Care - ethics
United States
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