patient autonomy

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patient autonomy

Medical ethics The right of a Pt to have his/her carefully considered choices for health care carried out in a fashion that is consonant with his or her personal philosophy; PA also assumes that, in absence of explicit instructions to the contrary, the most aggressive efforts should be made to resuscitate a Pt in extremis. See Code. Cf Medical paternalism, Slow code.

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