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Futility Judgments

Futility Judgment is a clinical-ethical assessment in neonatal intensive care that identifies a medical intervention as physiologically ineffective or medically inappropriate due to the absence of a reasonable likelihood of achieving established treatment goals, thereby distinguishing it from other decision-making frameworks by its focus on the biological feasibility and expected clinical outcomes of life-sustaining therapies.

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166

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126

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2017–2026

9

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Medical Futility Judgments

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Publications

73

The Problem with Futility

Robert D. Truog, Allan S. Brett, Joel Frader · New England Journal of Medicine · 1992 · 468 citations

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Who Defines Futility?

Stuart J. Youngner · JAMA · 1988 · 316 citations

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Medical futility: Predicting outcome of intensive care unit patients by nurses and doctors—A prospective comparative study*

Sonia Frick, Dominik E. Uehlinger, Regula M. Zuercher Zenklusen · Critical Care Medicine · 2003 · 207 citations

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Is Futility a Futile Concept?

Baruch A. Brody, Amir Halevy · The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine · 1995 · 188 citations

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Use of the Medical Futility Rationale in Do-Not-Attempt-Resuscitation Orders

J. Randall Curtis, David R. Park, Melissa Krone et al. · JAMA · 1995 · 151 citations

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Authors

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  1. SJ
    Stuart J. Youngner

    Case Western Reserve University, United States

    3 publications · 391 citations

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  2. JD
    John D. Lantos

    Children's Mercy Hospital, United States

    3 publications · 50 citations

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  3. AM
    Alexander Morgan Capron

    University of Southern California, United States

    2 publications · 33 citations

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  4. AA
    Atsushi Asai

    Kyoto University, Japan

    2 publications · 37 citations

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  5. LJ
    Lawrence J. Schneiderman

    University of California San Diego, United States

    2 publications · 120 citations

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Institutions

126

  1. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    193 citations

  2. Medical College of Wisconsin

    Milwaukee, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    84 citations

  3. University of Chicago Medical Center

    Chicago, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    42 citations

  4. Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

    London, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    9 publications

    197 citations

  5. University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    31 citations

  6. Southwestern Educational Society

    Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    735 citations

  7. University of Otago

    Dunedin, New Zealand

    2 h-index

    1 publications

    29 citations

  8. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    120 citations

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  1. PubMed

    Repository · 5 publications · 81 citations

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  3. JAMA

    4 publications · 568 citations

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  4. Journal of Medical Ethics

    3 publications · 70 citations

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  5. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

    3 publications · 58 citations

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