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Withholding and Withdrawing Life Sustaining Treatment from Elderly People:Towards Formal Guidelines BMJ 308:1689-1692, Doyal,L.&Wilsher,D., 1994 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract Clinicians often decide either to withhold or to withdraw lifesaving treatment in elderly patients.Considerable disagreement exists about the circumstances in which such actions can be defended.Debates about the scarcity of resources in the NHS add urgency to the need to resolve this disagreement.Competent elderly patients have a legal and moral right to decide whether to receive life sustaining treatment.Such treatment should not be withheld or withdrawn on the basis of a patient's age alone. Principles for making decisions about life sustaining treatment in competent elderly patients can be defended and should exist as written guidelines.

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