Code Status Decisions for End-Stage Cancer—Resolving the Ethical Dissonance

This Viewpoint discusses discordance in code status decisions between clinicians and patients with end-stage cancer and provides ethical frameworks for its resolution.

Corresponding Author: Fawad A. Khan, MD, Department of Neurology, Ochsner Neuroscience Institute, Ochsner Health, 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA 70121 (fakhan@ochsner.org).

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