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| Title |
Ethics review: End of life legislation – the French model
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Critical Care, February 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/cc7148 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Antoine Baumann, Gérard Audibert, Frédérique Claudot, Louis Puybasset |
| Abstract |
French law 2005-370 of April 22, 2005 (Leonetti's law) brings new rights to patients and clarifies medical practices regarding end of life care. This new law prohibits unreasonable obstinacy in investigations or therapeutics and authorizes the withholding or withdrawal of treatments when they appear "useless, disproportionate or having no other effect than solely the artificial preservation of life". Relief from pain is a fundamental right of patients. With regard to pain control, the law also allows doctors to dispense to patients "in an advanced or final phase of a serious and incurable affliction" anti-pain treatments as needed, even if these treatments, as a side effect, hasten their death. The drafting of advance directives regarding end of life constitutes a new right of patients. The decision to withdraw or withhold a treatment from a patient unable to express their will has to take into account the wishes they might have expressed through advance directives, and/or the wishes of a trusted person or, lastly, of the family. Before making any decision, physicians should respect a collegial medical procedure. Euthanasia defined as the act of terminating one's life on a patient's explicit request remains illegal. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1 | 50% |
| France | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 63 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 3 | 5% |
| Italy | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 59 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 13 | 21% |
| Other | 7 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 7 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 11% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 5 | 8% |
| Other | 15 | 24% |
| Unknown | 9 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 38 | 60% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 5% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 3% |
| Arts and Humanities | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 3 | 5% |
| Unknown | 12 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 July 2019.
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#1,336,251
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Critical Care
#1,144
of 6,554 outputs
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#3,548
of 109,795 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Critical Care
#2
of 41 outputs
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