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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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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