Background Responsible, shared decision making on the part of physicians and patients
about the potential use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) requires patients who are …

Ethical Issues in the Neonatal ICU Technological advances have altered the boundary
between viable and nonviable newborns and increased the need to consider quality of life in …

There are situations in which the requirement to obtain conventional written informed consent
can impose significant or even insurmountable barriers to conducting pragmatic clinical …

Background There is a heated debate about whether health professionals may refuse to
provide treatments to which they object on moral grounds. It is important to understand how …

BACKGROUND: Patients’ religious commitments and religious communities are known to
influence their experiences of illness and their medical decisions. Physicians are also …

Objective: This study compared the ways in which psychiatrists and nonpsychiatrists
interpret the relationship between religion/spirituality and health and address religion/spirituality …

Liver transplantation involving only a portion of a liver from a cadaveric donor is now performed
in several major centers worldwide. We propose to transplant a liver lobe from a living …

Objective: This study examines the relationship between physicians’ religious characteristics
and their attitudes and self-reported behaviors regarding R/S in the clinical encounter. …

… Requests for reprints should be addressed to John D. Lantos, MD, La Rabida Children’s …
Lantos JD, Miles SH, Silverstein MD, Stocking CB: Survival after cardiopulmonary resuscitation …

Every year, 10 000 infants are born in the United States with sensorineural deafness. Deaf
children of hearing (and nonsigning) parents are unique among all children in the world in …