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2. Patient Self-Determination Act - Wikipedia

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   The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) was passed by the United States Congress in 1990 as an amendment to the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990.Effective on December 1, 1991, this legislation required many hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, hospice providers, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), and other health care institutions to provide information about ...

3. Surrogate decision-maker - Wikipedia

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   The patient self-determination act states that hospitals and health care facilities must provide information about advance directives and DPA/HC. Also, a proxy or surrogate decision-maker can provide these final wishes to the doctor or care team if a DPA/HC or AD is not present.

4. Advance healthcare directive - Wikipedia

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   The public's response was to press for further legislative support. The most recent result was the Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990, [21] which attempted to address this awareness problem by requiring health care institutions to better promote and support the use of advance directives. [22] [23]

5. Opinion: Why organ donors need our help - AOL

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   Editor’s Note: Sigrid Fry-Revere is a medical ethicist with a focus on patients’ rights.She wrote the initial draft of the 1990 Patient Self-Determination Act and started the first non-profit ...

6. Right to die - Wikipedia

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   The 1991 Patient Self-Determination Act passed by the US Congress at the request of the financial arm of Medicare does permit elderly Medicare/Medicaid patients (and by implication, all "terminal" patients) to prepare an advance directive in which they elect or choose to refuse life-extending and/or life-saving treatments as a means of ...

7. 49ers suspend De'Vondre Campbell for refusing to enter game ...

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   The San Francisco 49ers on Monday suspended linebacker De'Vondre Campbell for the final three games of the regular season for refusing to play Thursday night against the Los Angeles Rams.. Niners ...

8. Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health - Wikipedia

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   For example, just one month after the Supreme Court ruling in Cruzan, the Society for the Right to Die had received some 300,000 requests for advance directive forms. [ 14 ] According to an article in The New York Times , the Cruzan case also helped increase support for the federal Patient Self-Determination Act , which became effective just ...

9. Biden set to pardon turkeys, but PETA says it's a 'wretched ...

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   WASHINGTON – It’s a pre-Thanksgiving tradition at the White House, but an animal rights group says it’s a fowl festivity that is, well, foul. “As a ‘lame duck,’ you no longer need to ...