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The Patient Self Determination Act: opportunity knocks again
1Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College, PA 19010.
Social Work in Health Care
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
The recent Patient Self Determination Act (PSDA) gives patients the right to exercise greater control over the care they receive from health care facilities and programs during the final phases of their lives. Social work can make important contributions to health care facilities as they develop policies and programs for implementing the Act's provisions about advance directives and refusal and withdrawal of treatment.