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- Title
Regional Unrepresented Patient Advocacy Committee as an Alternative for Decision Making.
- Authors
Anderson-Shaw, Lisa K.
- Abstract
Acute care hospitals and extended care facilities across the United States care for patients who lack capacity to make medical decisions. When such patients are hospitalized and have no identifiable surrogate, their unrepresented status prompts questions about who should make decisions. This article explores using a regional state unrepresented patient advocacy committee as an alternative to appointment of a legal guardian or to using clinicians as decision makers.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AMERICAN Medical Association; COMMITTEES; CRITICAL care medicine; DECISION making; GUARDIAN &; ward; MEDICAL care; NURSING care facilities; PATIENT advocacy; PATIENTS; PHYSICIANS
- Publication
AMA Journal of Ethics, 2019, Vol 21, Issue 7, p594
- ISSN
2376-6980
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/amajethics.2019.594