The limits of advance directives: a history and assessment of the Patient Self-Determination Act

Wake Forest Law Rev. 1997 Summer;32(2):249-93.
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MeSH terms

  • Advance Directive Adherence
  • Advance Directives*
  • Coercion
  • Cognition
  • Communication
  • Comprehension
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Economics
  • Empirical Research
  • Euthanasia, Passive
  • Evaluation Studies as Topic*
  • Goals
  • Health Facilities
  • Hospices
  • Humans
  • Information Dissemination
  • Information Services
  • Legislation as Topic*
  • Liability, Legal
  • Living Wills
  • Minority Groups
  • Patient Education as Topic
  • Patients
  • Physicians
  • Policy Making
  • Politics
  • Prognosis
  • Research
  • Social Change*
  • Social Values
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • State Government
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Terminal Care
  • Third-Party Consent
  • United States
  • Vulnerable Populations
  • Withholding Treatment