Centre for Health Governance, Law and Ethics, University of Sydney, Sydney Law School, Sydney, NSW 2251, Australia.
Public Health. 2011 Dec;125(12):905-918. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2011.10.001. Epub 2011 Nov 4.
Good laws are a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for the provision of good health care. At the end of life, there is a need for laws that foster and encourage the best possible outcomes for patients, their families and healthcare professionals. This article proposes five desiderata for laws at the end of life. It uses the emerging Australian jurisprudence of end-of-life decision making to test and examine the desiderata. The article also proposes that poorly drafted and confusing laws may have a deleterious effect on patient care. These nomoigenic (law-caused) harms can be avoided by adherence to the five desiderata of death law.
好的法律是提供良好医疗保健的必要条件，但不是充分条件。在生命的尽头，需要有法律来促进和鼓励患者、他们的家人和医疗保健专业人员尽可能好的结果。本文提出了生命尽头法律的五个理想条件。它利用澳大利亚临终决策的新兴判例法来检验和审查这些理想条件。文章还提出，起草不当和令人困惑的法律可能对患者护理产生有害影响。通过遵守死亡法的五个理想条件，可以避免这些由法律引起的伤害。
