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How should clinicians respond to requests for potentially inappropriate treatment?

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  1. The examples within this manuscript are offered as tangible illustrations of the categories, and the scenarios have been chosen as a “best fit” for the concepts. Because of the variability between countries and jurisdictions regarding how these disputes are handled, (especially for potentially inappropriate and legally proscribed/discretionary treatments) the examples will likely be widely, although not necessarily universally, accurate.

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  1. Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, Occupational, and Sleep Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, 1120 W. Michigan Street, CL285, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA

    Gabriel T. Bosslet

  2. Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center-Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Jozef Kesecioglu

  3. Critical Care Medicine, Center for Bioethics and Health Law, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Douglas B. White

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Bosslet, G.T., Kesecioglu, J. & White, D.B. How should clinicians respond to requests for potentially inappropriate treatment?. Intensive Care Med 42, 422–425 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-015-4192-4

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