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Decisions at the end of life. Guided by communities of patients
1Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
The Hastings Center Report
|September 1, 1993
Abstract:
To guide treatment decisions for incompetent patients who have no advance directives, health care institutions should look to the preferences of their own communities of patients. That is the best way to ensure that incompetent patients' wishes will be followed.