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Figure 2.

Probability of Death over Time for Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment or Active Shortening of Dying Process (SDP).

The probability of death is higher and the time to death shorter with SDP than withdrawing and withholding treatment. Adapted with kind permission from JAMA, End of life practices in European intensive care units—the Ethicus Study, Volume 290, 2003, Page 794, Figure, Sprung CL, Cohen SL, Sjokvist P, et al. Ethicus Study Group. Copyright © 2003 American Medical Association. All right reserved.⁷

RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2014 January; 5(1): e0003. ISSN: 2076-9172

Published online 2014 January 21. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10137