The Texas Advance Directives Act-Is It a Good Model?

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 384-390

  Jacobs, Harris C ^a,b  

^a BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

autonomy; futility; paternalism

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LAW; LIVING WILL; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; NEWBORN CARE; PATIENT RIGHT; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNITED STATES;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; ETHICS COMMITTEES, CLINICAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TERMINAL CARE; TEXAS; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 71549156545     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2009.07.006     Document Type: Review

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