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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 ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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The Federal Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) requires health care institutions to provide newly admitted adult patients with information regarding advance health care directives. [6] The intent of this law is to make patients aware of their rights with regard to end-of-life care .