1 achieving no result; not effective or successful:
Like thresholds for significance tests, statistical thresholds for what should count as futile are not discovered.
Her research explores a range of topics, including justice in healthcare, healthcare for aging individuals and populations, and the use of medically futile treatment.
Many public health physicians realized how futile their efforts were.
The family was responsible for continuing futile treatment in 62% of cases, the physician in 37% of cases, and a court-appointed surrogate in one case.
Therefore, attempts to extract meaningful information from the spectrum may appear futile.
The hospital had just adopted a policy specifying that life-sustaining treatment for permanent unconsciousness was futile and, therefore, not indicated.
Other arguments for continuing "futile care" are religious faith or religious doctrine.
Other factors may lead clinicians to prematurely foreclose the prospect of recovery and view care for patients with a disorder of consciousness as being futile.
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(行動)無作用的, 無效的, 不成功的…
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(行动)无作用的, 无效的, 不成功的…
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inútil, fútil [masculine-feminine], inútil [masculine-feminine]…
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inútil…
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無駄な…
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nafile, boşuna, yersiz…
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vain/vaine, futile…
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