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Ethical Issues: Futility Policies
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-03)Futility, in general, is the inability to achieve an intended goal or outcome. Biomedical futility more specifically is a clinical judgment that, in light of the patient's current clinical circumstance, it is not physiologically ...