Ethical Reasons For Advanced Medical Directive

Advance Directives | ama-coe - American Medical Association

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Advance Directives. Respect for autonomy and fidelity to the patient are widely acknowledged as core values in the professional ethics of medicine. For patients who lack decision-making capacity, these values are fulfilled through third-party decision making …

Advance Directives - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

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Advance directives were developed to respond to the increasing sophistication of medical technology. Numerous studies have …

Ethics and Advance Planning for End-of-Life Care | AAFP

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Living wills and advance directives for medical decisions

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/in-depth/living-wills/art-20046303

Power of attorney. A medical or health care power of attorney is a type of advance directive …

Myths and Facts About Health Care Advance Directives

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You must have a living will to stop treatment near the end of life. Treatment that is no longer …

Ethical Considerations in Executing and Implementing …

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/191363

Several of these seem worth examining: (1) prior to losing their ability to make decisions, patients should be able to express their wishes about treatment and express them in …

Overriding advance directives: A 20-year legal and …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31433120/

Abstract. Health professionals have been known to override patients' advance directives. The most ethically problematic instances involve a directive's explicitly forbidding the …

Interpreting Advance Directives: Ethical Considerations …

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10728-009-0118-z

The few studies done in this field suggest several reasons: a lack of information regarding the opportunity to create advance directives, fear of abuse by …

Ethical Perspectives on Advance Directives for Dementia

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It is precisely because of their up-close, intimate knowledge of loved ones or patients with advanced dementia, who can live for years without needing lifesaving or life …

Ethics in advance care planning

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Ethics in advance care planning. Medical decision-making towards the end of life can be difficult for everyone concerned and involves complex ethical considerations and situations where there isn't one 'right' way forward. …