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Patient self-determination in long-term care : implementing the PSDA in medical decisions / Marshall B. Kapp, editor.
- Title
- Patient self-determination in long-term care : implementing the PSDA in medical decisions / Marshall B. Kapp, editor.
- Publication
- New York : Springer Pub. Co., c1994.
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | RA 997 .P286 1994 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Kapp, Marshall B.
- Description
- xvii, 215 p. : forms; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Springer series on ethics, law, and aging ; 1994
- Uniform Title
- Springer series on ethics, law, and aging 1994.
- Subject
- Resuscitation Orders
- Informed Consent
- Ethics, Medical
- Terminal Care
- Right to Die
- Nursing home care > Moral and ethical aspects > United States
- Terminal care > United States > Decision making
- Patients > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
- Informed consent (Medical law) > United States
- Right to die > Law and legislation > United States
- Older people > Long-term care > Moral and ethical aspects > United States
- Ethics committees
- Hospice Care
- Truth Disclosure
- Patient Dropouts
- Euthanasia, Passive
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Legislation
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-211) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The moral aspects of the Patient Self-Determination Act / Charles J. Fahey -- Self-determination and long-term care / William N. Kavesh -- Establishing an ethics committee for a nursing home / Todd L. Sobol, Agnes Marie Boes -- The Patient Self-Determination Act in the home care setting / Amy Marie Haddad -- Problems and protocols for dying at home in a high-tech environment / Marshall B. Kapp -- Ethnic Americans, long-term health care providers, and the Patient Self-Determination Act / Vernellia R. Randall -- Liability issues and assessment of decisionmaking capability in nursing home patients / Marshall B. Kapp -- State statutes limiting advance directives : death warrants or life sentences? / Marshall B. Kapp -- Appendices. Selected laws. Text of the Patient Self-Determination Act ; State statutes -- Selected organizational resources -- Values history -- Model advance directive.
- ISBN
- 0826185207
- LCCN
- ^^^94017537^
- OCLC
- 30472978
- SCSB-10463938
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library