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Decisions at the End of Life Guided by Communities of Patients
Hastings Center Report 23 (5):6 (1993)
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To guide treatment decisions for incompetent patients who have no advance directives, health care institutions should look to the preferences of their own communities of patients. That is the best way to ensure that incompetent patients' wishes will be followed.Author's Profile
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