Someone to watch over me: medical decision-making for hopelessly ill incompetent adult patients.

Privacy and personhood revisited: a new framework for substitute decisionmaking for the incompetent, incurably ill adult.

Decisionmaking for the incompetent terminally ill patient: a compromise in a solution eliminates a compromise of patients' rights.

The slow code--should anyone rush to its defense?

PubMed Citation The past two decades have witnessed dramatic changes in professional values and social expectations regarding medical care and decision making at the end of life. Increased emphasis on patients' autonomy and participation have made open discussion, both in the medical and popular literature and at the bedside, the new norm. The seemingly final taboo, euthanasia, is now the topic...

Knowledge of the legislation governing proxy consent to treatment and research.

OBJECTIVE To assess the knowledge of four groups of individuals regarding who is legally authorised to consent to health care or research involving older patients. DESIGN A provincewide postal survey. SETTING Province of Quebec, Canada. PARTICIPANTS Three hundred older adults, 434 informal caregivers of cognitively impaired individuals, 98 researchers in aging and 136 members of research ...

دیدگاه بیماران ایرانی در مورد فرد تصمیم‌گیرنده‌ی جایگزین: چه کسی بهتر تصمیم میگیرد؟

Decision making by a surrogate on behalf of incompetent patients is based on the ethical principle of "respect for autonomy". The increase in advanced health services has lead to more instances of decision making for incompetent patients receiving such services, and the treatment team usually asks a family member to serve for this purpose without being aware of the patient's preference. This st...