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The MOLST Program is a New York State initiative that facilitates end-of-life medical decision-making. One goal of the MOLST Program is to ensure that decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment are made in accordance with the patient's wishes, or, if the patient's wishes are not reasonably known and cannot with reasonable diligence be ascertained, in accordance with the ...
First, an adult patient with capacity had a broad right to choose to forgo life-sustaining treatment. Second, life-sustaining treatment could be withdrawn or withheld from an adult patient who lacked capacity if the adult, prior to losing capacity, either left "clear and convincing evidence" of a prior decision to forgo such treatment under the ...
POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) is an approach to improving end-of-life care in the United States, encouraging providers to speak with the severely ill and create specific medical orders to be honored by health care workers during a medical crisis. [1]
Alta Fixsler suffered a severe brain injury at birth and her doctors say she cannot breathe, eat or drink without sophisticated medical treatment. Life-sustaining treatment can be withdrawn from ...
Life-Sustaining Treatment: Making Decisions and Appointing a Health Care Agent (1987) When Others Must Choose: Deciding for Patients Without Capacity (1992) When Death is Sought: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context (1994) Recommendation Regarding the Extension of the Family Health Care Decisions Act to Include Hospice (2010)
Deciding to forego life-sustaining treatment: a report on the ethical, medical, and legal issues in treatment decisions. Washington, DC: President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research: For sale by the Supt. of Docs. U.S. G.P.O. Rachels, James. The End of Life: Euthanasia and Morality ...
The numerous legislative rulings and legal precedents that were brought about in the wake of the Quinlan case had their ethical foundation in the famous 1983 report completed by the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine, under the title "Deciding to Forgo Life-Sustaining Treatment."
An advance healthcare directive, also known as living will, personal directive, advance directive, medical directive or advance decision, is a legal document in which a person specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves because of illness or incapacity.