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Meanings of advance directive in inglés

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Legal document in which a person specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves because of illness or incapacity.

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Usage of advance directive in inglés
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Eight states' advance directive documents asked for the woman's pregnancy-specific care preferences.
Reuters
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To make an advance directive you need to think about dying.
The Guardian
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They also scrutinized advance directive documents from each state.
Reuters
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A conversation that was reinforced on paper in a handwritten, signed advance directive. He glances at me.
Lone Wolf
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But "significantly lower" stress levels were seen in cases where an advance directive was in place.
Reuters
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An advance directive should state what medical treatment you do not want to receive, should you become incapacitated.
The Guardian
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More than 70% of Americans have made an advance directive, also known as a living will.
The Guardian
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An advance directive is just one factor, among many, that a doctor will consider when deciding on a euthanasia case.
The Guardian
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I am coming to understand the importance of having a living will or advance directive, as some people call it.
The Guardian
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Conclusion: Among an urban cohort of HIV patients, the rates of advance directive completion, palliative care use, and hospice use were low.
Pubmed
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Macmillan prefers to talk about advance care planning because how you want to die should only be one part of your advance directive.
The Guardian
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Even if you do not fill out an advance directive, Wendler said, you can talk with your family about what you think you'd want.
Reuters
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Their naive confidence is shared by four out of 10 Dutch adults, who are convinced that a doctor is bound by an advance directive.
The Guardian
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Four years previously, a patient had made an advance directive declaring that she would prefer euthanasia to having to go into a care home.
The Irish Times
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Incapacity is defined by the Mental Capacity Act of 2005 and under this act an advance directive is legally binding in England and Wales.
The Guardian
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Jurisprudence has thus arrived at an analysis of the juridical value of so-called advance directives.
Pubmed