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DeCS
Descriptor
English
:
Advance Directives
Descriptor
Spanish
:
Directivas Anticipadas
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Diretivas Antecipadas
Synonyms
English
:
Health Care Power of Attorney
Medical Power of Attorney
Tree Number:
I01.880.604.583.020
N03.706.535.020
N04.590.233.624.124.050
Definition
English
:
Declarations by
patients
, made in advance of a situation in which they may be incompetent to decide about their own care, stating their treatment preferences or authorizing a third party to make decisions for them. (
Bioethics
Thesaurus)
See Related
English
:
Advance Directive Adherence
Resuscitation Orders
Right to Die
History Note
English
:
1991
Allowable Qualifiers
English
:
CL
classification
EC
economics
ES
ethics
EH
ethnology
HI
history
LJ
legislation & jurisprudence
PX
psychology
SN
statistics & numerical data
TD
trends
Record Number:
28849
Unique Identifier:
D016223
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