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1. Aspects of decisions to withhold and withdraw life-sustaining treatment in intensive care
Sammanfattning : End-of-life decision-making is required when the patient no longer benefits from available treatment options and there is a need to redirect medical treatment goals from cure to palliative care. End-of-life decisions are multifaceted and complicated processes for intensive care physicians. LÄS MER
2. Forgoing life-sustaining treatment in intensive care units. Practice, attitudes and ethics
Sammanfattning : Many deaths in intensive care units are preceded by decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment. Under what conditions are forgoing life-sustaining treatment considered appropiate, when is it optitional and when is it wrong? Relevant guidelines are essential to help medical decisionmakers, but they cannot be established only from medical knowledge. LÄS MER
3. Withhold or withdraw futile treatment in intensive care : arguments supported by physicians and the general public
Sammanfattning : Background: Since the 60s and with increasing intensity a discussion have continued about balance between useful and useless/harmful treatment. Different attempts have been done to create sustainable criteria and recommendations to manage the situations of futile treatment near the end of life. LÄS MER
4. Building the Bridge from Bench to Bedside: Ethical Issues in Translational Stem Cell Research
Sammanfattning : Abstract in UndeterminedTranslational stem cell research raises many interesting ethical questions, which have, to a greater or lesser degree, been debated at an international as well as at an interdisciplinary level. Nevertheless, there is still no international consensus regarding how a number of ethical questions related to this research should be answered. LÄS MER
5. A Novel Method to Intelligently Mine Social Media to Assess Consumer Sentiment of Pharmaceutical Drugs
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on the development of novel data mining techniques that convert user interactions in social media networks into readable data that would benefit users, companies, and governments. The readable data can either warn of dangerous side effects of pharmaceutical drugs or improve intervention strategies. LÄS MER