A surrogate decision maker, also known as a health care proxy or as agents, is an advocate for incompetent patients. If a patient is unable to make decisions...

decision-maker; and ethical standards for making decisions, including life-sustaining treatment decisions. In short, it empowers a surrogate decision-maker...

Tahir, Sadia (14 August 2017). "Evaluation of the Decisional Fatigue Scale Among Surrogate Decision Makers of the Critically Ill". Western Journal of Nursing...

person must have sufficient information and understanding before making decisions about accepting risk, such as their medical care. Pertinent information...

degrees of personal sacrifice. Young and Wagner provided a formula to guide decision-making for this situation. They also argued that, for healthcare professionals...

the patient, or other surrogate decision maker for the patient, makes such a request of the medical staff. Surrogate decision makers are considered in a...

decision-making may come into question during resolution of conflicts between autonomy and beneficence. The role of surrogate medical decision-makers...

S.; Henning, Stacy L.; Kocet, Michael M. (16 September 2015). Ethical Decision Making for the 21st Century Counselor. SAGE Publications. pp. 53+. ISBN 978-1-4833-1150-0...

being under anesthesia when a decision needs to be made. Healthcare proxies are one of three ways that surrogate decision makers are enacted, the other two...

instructions for future mental health treatment, or to appoint a surrogate decision maker through Health Care Power of Attorney (HCPA), in advance of being...

and legal interventions, up to and including the appointment of surrogate decision-makers such as legal guardians. While some states provide adult protective...

It proposes the discussion about moral discernment in society (what decisions are "good" or "bad" and why) and it is often related to medical policy...

et al. (December 2012). "Learned helplessness among families and surrogate decision-makers of patients admitted to medical, surgical, and trauma ICUs". Chest...

to make an autonomous decision, the neurosurgeon should discuss with the surrogate decision maker in order to aid in the decision-making process. Performing...

appear in pairs, as a high surrogate followed by a low surrogate, thus using 32 bits to denote one code point. A surrogate pair denotes the code point...

are immune to the influence of power and therefore can act as surrogate decision-makers for the rest of society. Sowell argues that the constrained vision...

make a decision about their care or treatment but lack capacity to make a financial decision. Outside an emergency situation, the decision maker should...

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components of advance care planning include the nomination of a substitute decision maker, and the completion of an advance care directive. Advance care planning...

influence decisions.: 5  Alternatively, a surrogate decision-maker such as a relative, friend or healthcare professional may make decisions on a patient's...

by the patient (as a DNR order in an advance directive), by a surrogate decision-maker or by the medical team because it is not medically indicated."...

family members, friends, or surrogate decision makers often experience feelings of tension and burden. Decision-makers must deal with the relational...

mental shortcuts), called heuristics, that the brain uses to produce decisions or judgments. Biases have a variety of forms and appear as cognitive ("cold")...

child's inability to give consent. Since children require a substituted decision maker acting in their best interests, they recommend to hold off non-medically...

supporters and opponents of the right of patients, and their surrogate decision-makers, to choose whether to discontinue life-sustaining medical treatment...

young prostitute as a surrogate mother, the film generated controversy during its release for dealing with the taboo issue of surrogate childbirth in India...

Stacie; Havranek, Edward; Perman, Sarah (January 2019). "830: Surrogate Decision-maker's perceptions of engaging in research while grieving". Critical...

Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 69, 99–118. 1956. "Reply: Surrogates for Uncertain Decision Problems", Office of Naval Research, January 1956. – Reprinted...

completed by the patient or a surrogate. In addition, it is common for Japanese doctors and nurses to be involved in the decision-making process for the DNAR...

Phurti, a carefree bubbly girl who dreams of settling in London, as a surrogate in return for sending her to London. Phurti becomes pregnant with KT and...