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Abstract
Declarations by patients, made in advance of a situation in which they may be incompetent to decide about their own care, stating their treatment preferences or authorizing a third party to make decisions for them. (Bioethics Thesaurus)
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16 entry terms
- Advance Directive
- Directive, Advance
- Directives, Advance
- Health Care Power of Attorney
- Healthcare Power of Attorney
- Medical Power of Attorney
- Psychiatric Wills
- Ulysses Contracts
- Attorney Healthcare Power
- Attorney Medical Power
- Contract, Ulysses
- Contracts, Ulysses
- Psychiatric Will
- Ulysses Contract
- Will, Psychiatric
- Wills, Psychiatric
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, psychology, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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1991
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- Right to Die (1987-1990)
- Wills (1966-1990)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Advance Directives. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016223. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016223
- Advance Directives. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_healthcare_directive
- Advance Directives. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555118