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POLST Signature Requirements: Responding With Compassion While Ensuring Informed Consent

The majority of states require the signature of a surrogate decision maker on a POLST form for a patient who lacks decisional capacity. While commendable in its intention to ensure informed consent, in some cases this may lead the surrogate to feel that they are signing their loved one’s “death warr...

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Autores principales: Macauley, Robert, Tolle, Susan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7983334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32869653
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049909120953084