Advance Directives
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)
Year introduced: 1991
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Tree Number(s): I01.880.604.583.020, N03.706.535.020, N04.590.233.624.124.050
MeSH Unique ID: D016223
Entry Terms:
- Advance Directive
- Directive, Advance
- Directives, Advance
- Psychiatric Wills
- Psychiatric Will
- Will, Psychiatric
- Wills, Psychiatric
- Ulysses Contracts
- Contracts, Ulysses
- Contract, Ulysses
- Ulysses Contract
- Health Care Power of Attorney
- Healthcare Power of Attorney
- Attorney Healthcare Power
- Medical Power of Attorney
- Attorney Medical Power
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