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  2. Advance healthcare directive - Wikipedia

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    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. In the U.S. it has a ...

  3. 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.

  4. Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment - Wikipedia

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    The POLST Form provides explicit guidance to healthcare professionals under predictable future circumstances based on the individual's current medical condition. [1] The POLST form is reviewed more frequently compared to an advance directive to make sure that the form complies with the individual's wishes in treatments as the disease progresses ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Texas Advance Directives Act - Wikipedia

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    SB 439 is also known as the "Patient and Family Treatment Choice Rights Act of 2007" and would amend the applicable provisions of the Advance Directives Act to "ensure that, when an attending physician is unwilling to respect a patient's advance directive or a patient's or family's decision to choose the treatment necessary to prevent the ...

  7. Power of attorney - Wikipedia

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    For example, the California legislature has adopted a standard power of attorney for health care and advance health care directive form that meets all of that state's legal wording requirements for a power of attorney and advance health care directive in a single document. [14]

  8. Luis Kutner - Wikipedia

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    Luis Kutner was the first to publish the concept of the living will (which is the oldest form of an advance directive) in 1969. [3] The term living will means that this form of will was to be used while an individual was still alive (but no longer able to make decisions).

  9. Do not resuscitate - Wikipedia

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    A do-not-resuscitate order (DNR), also known as Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR), Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR [3]), no code [4] [5] or allow natural death, is a medical order, written or oral depending on the jurisdiction, indicating that a person should not receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) if that person's heart stops beating. [5]

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