Making Medical Decisions For Patients Without Surrogates

Who Makes Decisions for Incapacitated Patients Who Have No …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/who-makes-decisions-incapacitated-patients-who-have-no-surrogate-or-advance-directive/2019-07

Making medical decisions for patients without surrogates

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Making medical decisions for patients without surrogates. Making medical decisions for patients without surrogates N Engl J Med. 2013 Nov …

Medical decision making for patients without surrogates

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This analysis suggests that a population-based treatment indicator may provide a mechanism to respect the treatment preferences of patients without surrogates …

Medical Decision Making for Patients Without Surrogates

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The mandated processes for making medical decisions for incapacitated patients without advance directives or surrogates vary by state. 5,11 …

Healthcare Decisions for Incapacitated Patients Without …

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Purpose. To provide a procedural mechanism whereby ethically and medically appropriate health care decisions can be made for patients who lack health care decision-making …

Decisions for Adult Patients Who Lack Capacity | ama-coe

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Decisions for Adult Patients Who Lack Capacity. Download PDF CME Course. Respect for patient autonomy is central to professional ethics and physicians should involve patients …

What to do when patients lack decision-making capacity, …

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Health professionals frequently care for patients who are unrepresented—those who lack decision-making capacity, identifiable surrogates, and advance directives. Unrepresented patients are often …

If There is No Advance Directive or Guardian, Who …

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_aging/publications/bifocal/vol_37/issue_1_october2015/hospitalist_focus_group/

Approximately 40 percent of adult medical inpatients, 44-69 percent of nursing home residents, and 70 percent of older adults facing treatment decisions are incapable …

Unbefriended And Unrepresented: Better Medical …

https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2898&context=gsulr

How should we make medical decisions for incapacitated patients who have no available legally-authorized surrogate decision maker? Because these …