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Health Care Economics and Organizations > Social Control, Formal > Jurisprudence > Advance Directives
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Control, Formal > Jurisprudence > Advance Directives
... > Health Occupations > Health Services Administration > Patient Care Management > Comprehensive Health Care > Patient Care Planning > Advance Care Planning > Advance Directives

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Advance Directives  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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  • Attorney Medical Power
  • Health Care Power of Attorney
  • Medical Power of Attorney
  • Psychiatric Will
  • Psychiatric Wills
  • Will, Psychiatric
  • Wills, Psychiatric

Scope note

  • 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)

History note

  • 1991

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016223

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