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How Should Clinicians Navigate Decision Making for Unrepresented Patients?

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: Caring for patients who lack decision-making capacity is common in health care and presents numerous practical and ethical challenges. Unrepresented patients are vulnerable in part because they do not have anyone to help articulate their values and preferences, and they cannot do so themselves. This commentary suggests a deliberative approach to responding to these patients' needs.

Source: The AMA Journal of Ethic

DOI: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.559

Authors: Timothy M. Dempsey, Erin Sullivan DeMartino

Institution: Mayo Clinic

Language: English

Topic: Ethics and bioethics in healthcare

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2954299174