Ethics of Decision-Making in Metastatic Spinal Disease

World Neurosurg. 2021 Apr:148:1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.12.153. Epub 2021 Jan 5.

Authors

Vikram B Chakravarthy¹, Megan K Applewhite², Ajit A Krishnaney³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Electronic address: chakrav@ccf.org.
² Alden March Bioethics Institute and Department of Surgery, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, USA; Department of Surgery, Albany Medical Center, Albany, New York, USA.
³ Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

PMID: 33418119
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.12.153

No abstract available

Keywords: Autonomy; Beneficence; Ethics; Justice; Metastatic epidural spinal cord compression; Nonmaleficence; Spine oncology.

MeSH terms

Beneficence
Clinical Decision-Making / ethics*
Decision Making, Shared*
Decompression, Surgical / ethics
Humans
Neurosurgical Procedures / ethics
Personal Autonomy
Quality of Life
Spinal Cord Compression / etiology
Spinal Cord Compression / surgery*
Spinal Neoplasms / complications
Spinal Neoplasms / secondary
Spinal Neoplasms / surgery*