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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. Advance healthcare directive - Wikipedia

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   The U.S. Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) [14] went into effect in December 1991 and required healthcare providers (primarily hospitals, nursing homes, and home health agencies) to give patients information about their rights to make advance directives under state law. [15]

4. 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.

5. Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment - Wikipedia

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   An advance directive allows an individual to state what treatments he or she would want in a medical crisis, but it is not a medical order. [4] Advance directives are not portable in a sense that it is not accessible across medical systems, so it is the individual's responsibility to have the form on them at all times. [ 4 ]

6. Ohio Medical Board to act more quicky in sexual abuse cases - AOL

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   Mike DeWine recently signed a new law that included recommendations from a 2019 working group created in 2019 to review the Medical Board’s handling of the six-year investigation into Ohio State ...

7. End-of-life care - Wikipedia

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   A person will typically have these conversations with their doctor and ultimately record their preferences in an advance healthcare directive. [9] An advance healthcare directive is a legal document that either documents a person's decisions about desired treatment or indicates who a person has entrusted to make their care decisions for them ...