TY - JOUR
T1 - Social values as an independent factor affecting end of life medical decision making
AU - Cohen, Charles J.
AU - Chen, Yifat
AU - Orbach, Hedi
AU - Freier-Dror, Yossi
AU - Auslander, Gail
AU - Breuer, Gabriel S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - Research shows that the physician’s personal attributes and social characteristics have a strong association with their end-of-life (EOL) decision making. Despite efforts to increase patient, family and surrogate input into EOL decision making, research shows the physician’s input to be dominant. Our research finds that physician’s social values, independent of religiosity, have a significant association with physician’s tendency to withhold or withdraw life sustaining, EOL treatments. It is suggested that physicians employ personal social values in their EOL medical coping, because they have to cope with existential dilemmas posed by the mystery of death, and left unresolved by medical decision making mechanisms such as advanced directives and hospital ethics committees.
AB - Research shows that the physician’s personal attributes and social characteristics have a strong association with their end-of-life (EOL) decision making. Despite efforts to increase patient, family and surrogate input into EOL decision making, research shows the physician’s input to be dominant. Our research finds that physician’s social values, independent of religiosity, have a significant association with physician’s tendency to withhold or withdraw life sustaining, EOL treatments. It is suggested that physicians employ personal social values in their EOL medical coping, because they have to cope with existential dilemmas posed by the mystery of death, and left unresolved by medical decision making mechanisms such as advanced directives and hospital ethics committees.
KW - End of life
KW - Israel
KW - Medical decision making
KW - Social values
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84939877841&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11019-014-9581-x
DO - 10.1007/s11019-014-9581-x
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C2 - 24965073
AN - SCOPUS:84939877841
SN - 1386-7423
VL - 18
SP - 71
EP - 80
JO - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
JF - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
IS - 1
ER -