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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài:Ethics review: End of life legislation - the French model. | Available online http ccforum.eom content 13 1 204 Review Ethics review End of life legislation - the French model Antoine Baumann1 Gérard Audibert1 Frédérique Claudot2 and Louis Puybasset3 1 Département d Anesthésie Réanimation Hôpital Central Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nancy 29 avenue du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny C.O. n 34 54035 Nancy Cedex France 2Service de Médecine légale et de Droit de la Santé Faculté de médecine de Nancy 9 avenue de la Foret de Haye 54505 Vandoeuvre les Nancy Cedex France 3Département d Anesthésie Réanimation Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pitié-Salpêtrière Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris 47-83 boulevard de l Hôpital 75651 Paris Cedex 13 France Corresponding author Antoine Baumann a.baumann@chu-nancy.fr Published 23 February 2009 This article is online at http ccforum.com content 13 1 204 2009 BioMed Central Ltd Critical Care 2009 13 204 doi 10.1186 cc7148 Abstract French law 2005-370 of April 22 2005 Leonetti s law brings new rights to patients and clarifies medical practices regarding end of life care. This new law prohibits unreasonable obstinacy in investigations or therapeutics and authorizes the withholding or withdrawal of treatments when they appear useless disproportionate or having no other effect than solely the artificial preservation of life . Relief from pain is a fundamental right of patients. With regard to pain control the law also allows doctors to dispense to patients in an advanced or final phase of a serious and incurable affliction anti-pain treatments as needed even if these treatments as a side effect hasten their death. The drafting of advance directives regarding end of life constitutes a new right of patients. The decision to withdraw or withhold a treatment from a patient unable to express their will has to take into account the wishes they might have expressed through advance directives and or the wishes of a trusted person or lastly of the family. Before making any decision physicians .