Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0990329
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from adults lacking capacity: Enhancing medical decision-making through doctors' compliance with the law. This project will enhance medical decision-making about the provision of life-sustaining treatment to adults without decision-making capacity through improved compliance with the law. This will advance patients' autonomy and dignity, protect vulnerable adults whose lives may be wrongly ended because of inappropriate treatment decisions and avoid litigation for doctors and hospitals. The project also aims to improve the quality of the law by resolving legal ambiguity and proposing reforms. This will further enhance the quality of decision-making, and will reduce defensive medicine and the cost of complying with the law, leading to savings in health expenditure.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 04-2010
End Date: 12-2014
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $287,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Law And Society | Law | Law Not Elsewhere Classified | Care For Disabled
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Justice and the law not elsewhere classified | Public health not elsewhere classified | Health related to ageing |
