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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 11/2012

01-11-2012 | Letters

Advance Care Planning Safeguards

Authors: Sangeeta C. Ahluwalia, PhD, MPH, Howard S. Gordon, MD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 11/2012

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To the Editors:—We read with interest the recent article by Dr. Billings.1 In the article, Dr. Billings defines the goal of advance care planning as promoting the autonomy of decisionally incapacitated patients in decision-making about life-sustaining treatment, and cites public fears about restricting life-sustaining treatment as evidence for implementing certain safeguards in advance care planning, such as erring on the side of preserving life when advance directives are unclear. …
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Metadata
Title
Advance Care Planning Safeguards
Authors
Sangeeta C. Ahluwalia, PhD, MPH
Howard S. Gordon, MD
Publication date
01-11-2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 11/2012
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-012-2190-6

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