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Clinical review: Ethics and end-of-life care for critically ill patients in China

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Title
Clinical review: Ethics and end-of-life care for critically ill patients in China
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Critical Care, December 2013
DOI 10.1186/cc13140
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Li Bin Li

Abstract

Critical care medicine in China has made great advances in recent decades. This has led to an unavoidable issue: end-of-life ethics. With advances in medical technology and therapeutics allowing the seemingly limitless maintenance of life, the exact time of death of an individual patient is often determined by the decision to limit life support. How to care for patients at the end of life is not only a medical problem but also a social, ethical, and legal issue. A lot of factors, besides culture, come into play in determining a person's ethical attitudes or behaviors, such as experience, education, religion, individual attributes, and economic considerations. Chinese doctors face ethical problems similar to those of their Western counterparts; however, since Chinese society is different from that of Western countries in cultural traditions, customs, religious beliefs, and ethnic backgrounds, there is a great difference between China and the Western world in regard to ethics at the end of life, and there is also a huge controversy within China.

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Unknown 71 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 12 17%
Researcher 7 10%
Other 6 8%
Student > Bachelor 6 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 7%
Other 13 18%
Unknown 22 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 34%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 15%
Psychology 4 6%
Social Sciences 2 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 1%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 25 35%
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#19,916,939
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#5,872
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#235,251
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#85
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