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2. Five Wishes - Wikipedia

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   Wishes 1 and 2 are both legal documents. Once signed, they meet the legal requirements for an advance directive in the states listed below.Wishes 3, 4, and 5 are unique to Five Wishes, in that they address matters of comfort care, spirituality, forgiveness, and final wishes.

3. 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.

4. 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 ]

5. 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 ...

6. 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.

7. Patient Self-Determination Act - Wikipedia

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   Patient rights include: The right to facilitate their own health care decisions; The right to accept or refuse medical treatment; The right to make an advance health care directive; Facilities must inquire as to whether the patient already has an advance health care directive, and make note of this in their medical records.