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2. Advance healthcare directive - Wikipedia

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   Advance directives were created in response to the increasing sophistication and prevalence of medical technology. [3] [4] Numerous studies have documented critical deficits in the medical care of the dying; it has been found to be unnecessarily prolonged, [5] painful, [6] expensive, [7] [8] and emotionally burdensome to both patients and their families.

3. Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment - Wikipedia

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   [24] [4] Competent individuals above 18 years of age can fill out an advance directive. [4] 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. Surrogate decision-maker - Wikipedia

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   When filing an advance directive, an alternate health care agent should be identified. The surrogate decision maker must be a trusted individual that is able to make crucial decisions on behalf of the advance directive client. The advance directive should also indicate specific instructions for when a patient is incapacitated.

6. 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 ...

7. Terminal illness - Wikipedia

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   The advance directive should be updated regularly as the patient's condition changes so as to reflect the patient's wishes. [58] [20] Some of the decisions that advance directives may address include receiving fluids and nutrition support, getting blood transfusions, receiving antibiotics, resuscitation (if the heart stops beating), and ...

8. Damian Williams, Manhattan's top federal prosecutor, to ... - AOL

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   NEW YORK (Reuters) -Damian Williams, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan who secured convictions of high-profile defendants including U.S. Senator Bob Menendez and crypto mogul Sam Bankman ...

9. Ulysses pact - Wikipedia

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   Psychiatric advance directives are sometimes referred to as Ulysses pacts or Ulysses contracts, where there is a legal agreement designed to override a present request from a legally incompetent patient in favor of a past request made by that previously competent patient. [1]