Reassessing the Reliability of Advance Directives
A competent patient has the right to refuse treatment necessary to sustain life. However, for many end-of-life decisions, we lack direct access to the wishes of a competent patient. Some treatment decisions near the end of life involve patients with severely diminished mental capacity (for example,...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1997
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Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 1997, Volume: 6, Issue: 3, Pages: 325-338 |
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