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Unanswered Questions Surrounding the Patient Self–Determination Act

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2009

Robyn Shapiro
Robyn Shapiro
Affiliation:
Director of the Center for the Study of Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin.
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Extract

The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) imposes new requirements on health care providers for informing patients of their rights to make decisions concerning their medical care. The Act is intended to, and is likely to, encourage patients and residents of certain healhtcare facilities to consider their treatment preferences in advance of incapacity and, in particular, to determine the circumstances in which life-sustaining treatment will be provided to them. However, many questions concerning how healthcare providers will implement the Act remain unanswered.

Type
Special Section: The Patient Self-Determination Act
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , Spring 1992 , pp. 117 - 119
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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