کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
3836814 1247563 2009 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The Texas Advance Directives Act—Is It a Good Model?
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی پزشکی و دندانپزشکی (عمومی)
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The Texas Advance Directives Act—Is It a Good Model?
چکیده انگلیسی

The Texas Advance Directives Act was first passed in 1999 to help resolve conflicts between families and physicians when disagreements exist over continuing or halting treatments of patients. When the physician feels that continued treatment is ethically or morally unjustified and seeks to end life support for a patient against the wishes of the family, it establishes a specific path that must be followed to afford legal protection to the physician and institution. Its proponents believe that it reduces morally unjustifiable treatment of terminal patients, while its opponents argue that it places too much power in the hands of physicians and institutions. This review analyzes both sides of the argument, gives 2 examples of its application, and concludes that it is a good model but requires modification to correct some flaws.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Seminars in Perinatology - Volume 33, Issue 6, December 2009, Pages 384–390
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