Background: Many caregivers in intensive care units (ICUs) feel that they sometimes provide inappropriate or excessive care, but little is known about their definition of “futile care” or how they ...

More than one in 10 patients being treated in intensive care units (ICUs) was at some point receiving what doctors deemed to be futile care, in a new study. In those cases, critical care doctors ...

More than 99% of veterinarians surveyed said they'd encountered useless or non-beneficial veterinary care in their careers, according to a new Cornell-led study that documents the prevalence of futile ...