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  1. Consensus guidelines on analgesia and sedation in dying intensive care unit patients.Laura A. Hawryluck, William R. C. Harvey, Louise Lemieux-Charles & Peter A. Singer - 2002 - BMC Medical Ethics 3 (1):1-9.
    Background Intensivists must provide enough analgesia and sedation to ensure dying patients receive good palliative care. However, if it is perceived that too much is given, they risk prosecution for committing euthanasia. The goal of this study is to develop consensus guidelines on analgesia and sedation in dying intensive care unit patients that help distinguish palliative care from euthanasia. Methods Using the Delphi technique, panelists rated levels of agreement with statements describing how analgesics and sedatives should be given to dying (...)
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    Animal plasma membrane energization by proton-motive V-ATPases.Helmut Wieczorek, Dennis Brown, Sergio Grinstein, Jordi Ehrenfeld & William R. Harvey - 1999 - Bioessays 21 (8):637-648.
  3. Pain, competency and consent.William R. C. Harvey, George C. Webster & Derek L. Jones - 1993 - HEC Forum 5 (3):205-211.
    The paper is written in response to those who fail to recognize the relation between a patient's mental competency and her state of pain. Some clinicians claim that a proper diagnosis can only be made in the absent of analgesia. Rather, the patient's state of pain directly affects her mental competency and thus her ability to give valid consent. Clinicians should rethink their approach to diagnosis when the patient is in pain.
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  4. Competency and practical judgment.Robert Pepper-Smith, William R. C. Harvey & M. Silberfeld - 1996 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 17 (2).
    At least four different frameworks — psychiatric, cognitive, functional and decision-making — are used in the evaluation of competence, all of which remain more or less unrelated in the literature. In the first section of this paper we consider various meanings of competence, in order to arrive at a definition of the term relevant to the medical and legal setting. Patient or client competence, we conclude, refers to the practical abilities that individuals employ in pursuing their own autonomous goals in (...)
     
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