Palliative care refers to treatment that
A) significantly extends life.
B) effectively remedies the patient's condition.
C) supports and relieves the patient's discomfort.
D) is carried out after the patient dies.
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Q3: Sometimes the family wants to postpone the
Q4: Suspending futile treatment
A) can never be morally
Q5: Stakeholders involved in a possible futile treatment
Q6: Ethics equates suspending futile treatment with
A) abandoning
Q7: The notion of triage
A) refers to the
Q9: In considering futile treatment, the effects upon
Q10: Triage is used to decide which patient
Q11: When a patient loses capacity, treatment decisions
Q12: Palliative care is not considered futile treatment.
Q13: Extending futile treatment at the request of
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