"What the patient would have decided": A fundamental problem with the substituted judgment standard

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 265-278

  Broström, Linus ^a   Johansson, Mats ^a   Nielsen, Morten Klemme ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Decision conditions; Hypothetical consent; Incompetence; Substituted judgment; Substituted judgment standard; Surrogate decision making

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CUSTODY; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL CAPACITY; MORALITY; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PHILOSOPHY; STANDARD;

DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PRESUMED CONSENT; PROXY;

EID: 34548354865     PISSN: 13867423     EISSN: 15728633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-006-9042-2     Document Type: Article

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