Legal fundamentals of surrogate decision making

Chest

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1074-1081

  Pope, Thaddeus Mason ^a,b  

^a HAMLINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUSTODY; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MANDATORY REPORTING; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT SELF-DETERMINATION ACT; POWER OF ATTORNEY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WELFARE; WITNESS;

EID: 84859512165     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.11-2336     Document Type: Article

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