Endoflife-care
End-of-life care (EoLC) refers to health care for a person with a terminal condition that has become advanced, progressive, and/or incurable.End-of-life care requires a range of decisions, including questions of palliative care, patients' right to self-determination (of treatment, life), medical experimentation, the ethics and efficacy of extraordinary or hazardous medical interventions, and the ethics and efficacy even of continued routine medical interventions. In addition, end-of-life often touches upon rationing and the allocation of resources in hospitals and national medical systems. Such decisions are informed both by technical, medical considerations, economic factors as well as bioethics.
Last Updated on: Nov 27, 2024