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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 6.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2011 Apr;24(2):160–165. doi: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e328343c5af

Table 2.

Alternative terms for futility

Medical futility [16]
Clinical futility [30]
Non-beneficial treatment [31]
Medically inappropriate [32**][33]
Not clinically appropriate [34*]
Medically inadvisable [32]
Not medically indicated [35]
“realistically unable to achieve the minimum goal of life-sustaining treatment” [36]