The physician's role in completing advance directives: ensuring patients' capacity to make healthcare decisions in advance

J Clin Ethics. 1994 Winter;5(4):320-3.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Advance Directives / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Asthma / psychology
  • Ethics, Medical*
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Legal Guardians
  • Life Support Care / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Mental Competency / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Mentally Ill Persons*
  • Middle Aged
  • Personal Autonomy
  • Physician's Role*
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • Resuscitation Orders / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Suicide, Attempted / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Suicide, Attempted / psychology
  • Withholding Treatment