The best-interest standard: surrogate decision making and quality of life

J Clin Ethics. 1995 Spring;6(1):20-9.
No abstract available

MeSH terms

  • Activities of Daily Living
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Alzheimer Disease / complications
  • Alzheimer Disease / therapy
  • Cognition
  • Decision Making*
  • Ethics Committees, Clinical
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Female
  • Guidelines as Topic
  • Humans
  • Judgment
  • Legal Guardians / psychology*
  • Life Support Care / economics
  • Life Support Care / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Life Support Care / psychology
  • Life Support Care / standards*
  • Models, Psychological
  • Personal Autonomy
  • Personhood
  • Pneumonia / complications
  • Pneumonia / therapy
  • Problem Solving
  • Quality of Life*
  • Risk Assessment
  • Social Behavior
  • Social Values
  • United States
  • Withholding Treatment