Clinical ethics case report: Questionable capacity and the guidance of living wills

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 250-255

  Van Der Walde, Ari ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; FALLING; HUMAN; INJURY; ITALY; LANGUAGE; LIVING WILL; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL CAPACITY; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PUBLICATION; RESUSCITATION; SPINE FRACTURE; STANDARD; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADVANCE DIRECTIVE ADHERENCE; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS CONSULTATION; ETHICS, MEDICAL; ETHICS, NURSING; HUMANS; ITALY; LANGUAGE; LIVING WILLS; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; SPINAL FRACTURES; TRANSLATIONS; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84855546946     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. J. P. Spike, "Assessment of Decision-Making Capacity", in Reichel's Care of the Elderly, ed. C. Arensen et al. (Cambridge, U. K.: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 487-93.
2. A. Upadya et al., "Patient, Physician, and Family Member Understanding of Living Wills", American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 166(2002):1430-5.
3. J. Spike, "Controlled NHBD Protocol for a Fully Conscious Person: When Death Is Intended as an End in Itself and It Has Its Own End", The Journal of Clinical Ethics 11, no. 1(Spring 2000):73-7.