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Advance DirectiveAka: Advanced Directive
- See Also
- Definition
- Documents patient's healthcare preferences
- Determined while patient cognitively intact
- Implementation varies by state
- Mnemonic: CODE
- Communicate who discussion was held with
- Orders are summarized in documentation
- Decision maker (proxy or power of attorney) determined
- Extra Instructions (Living Will, health care directive)
Advance Directives (C0001683) | |
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| Definition (MSH) | 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) |
| Concepts | Intellectual Product (T170) |
| MSH | D016223 |
| English | Advance Directive, Advance Directives, Advanced directives |
| Parent Concepts | Principles of law and justice (C0022433), Advance Care Planning (C0600371) |
| Sources | LNC, MEDLINEPLUS, MSH Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) |
