Substituted interests and best judgments: An integrated model of surrogate decision making

JAMA

Volumn 304, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 1946-1947

  Sulmasy, Daniel P ^a   Snyder, Lois ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENTATION; EMPATHY; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; NOTE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURROGATE DECISION MAKING; TERMINAL CARE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; INFORMED CONSENT; PATIENT RIGHT;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; DECISION MAKING; DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATIENT RIGHTS; THIRD-PARTY CONSENT;

EID: 78049406355     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2010.1595     Document Type: Note

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