Health Care

Patient Self-Determination Act

The purpose of this 1990 federal act is to assure that individuals receiving health care services will be given an opportunity to participate in and direct health care decisions affecting themselves. Under this act, hospitals, health care agencies, and health maintenance organizations are responsible for developing patient information for distribution. The information must include patients' rights, advance directives, living wills, ethics committees' consultation and education functions, limited medical treatment (support/comfort care only), mental health treatment, resuscitation, restraints, surrogate decision making and transfer of care. (from JCAHO, Lexicon, 1994)

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The purpose of this 1990 federal act is to assure that individuals receiving health care services will be given an opportunity to participate in and direct health care decisions affecting themselves. Under this act, hospitals, health care agencies, and health maintenance organizations are responsible for developing patient information for distribution. The information must include patients' rights, advance directives, living wills, ethics committees' consultation and education functions, limited medical treatment (support/comfort care only), mental health treatment, resuscitation, restraints, surrogate decision making and transfer of care. (from JCAHO, Lexicon, 1994)

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  • PL 101-508
  • PL101-508
  • PSDA
  • Public Law 101-508
  • United States Patient Self-Determination Act
  • Law 101-508, Public
  • PL 101 508
  • PL101 508
  • Patient Self Determination Act
  • Public Law 101 508
  • Self-Determination Act, Patient
  • United States Patient Self Determination Act

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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add UNITED STATES; CATALOGER: Use NAF entry

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1999

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  1. N03w.706.615w.808w

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  1. National Library of Medicine. Patient Self-Determination Act. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D019726. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D019726
  2. Patient Self-Determination Act. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Self-Determination_Act
  3. Patient Self-Determination Act. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7144974